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 |  Subject: Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: The Truth About May Day  Fri May 02, 2014 3:19 am | |
| ...HAYMARKET AFFAIR IN CHICAGO
On May 4, 1886, police attempted to disperse a public assembly during a general strike in favor of the eight-hour workday. An unidentified person threw a bomb at the police and the police responded by firing on the workers, killing four demonstrators.
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"No single event has influenced the history of labor in Illinois, the United States, and even the world, more than the Chicago Haymarket Affair. It began with a rally on May 4, 1886, but the consequences are still being felt today. Although the rally is included in American history textbooks, very few present the event accurately or point out its significance," according to labor studies professor William J. Adelman.
According to historian Carl Smith:
"I think most of (the Haymarket defendants) are nonviolent people. They were convicted for what they said, not what they did. But yes, they certainly rhetorically preached violence as a solution. They preached a sense that violence is being practiced on them, day in and day out in the system — the billy clubs of the police. In their worldview, it was a life-and-death battle."
Although the movement has been paraded by the international Communist and Socialist workers parties, all eight defendants were called anarchists. I couldn't find much information on what sorts of anarchists these individuals were, but I do know there was an anarchist movement in the US at this time, though it was drowned out by the US socialist movement.
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| | Subject: Re: Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: The Truth About May Day Fri May 02, 2014 3:22 am | |
| - Quote :
- all eight defendants were called anarchists. I couldn't find much information on what sorts of anarchists these individuals were, but I do know there was an anarchist movement in the US at this time, though it was drowned out by the US socialist movement.
So they were not AC.
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| | Subject: Re: Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: The Truth About May Day Fri May 02, 2014 3:46 am | |
| No, of course not...
That is 1886...
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