Chicago’s august West Side Philosophical Society, aware of the agitation throughout the land, decided that the time had come to schedule an open debate at Princeton Hall on “Socialism.” Albert Parsons was invited to present the case. “That’s like the Pope opening the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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It’s good! I’d love to know how closely the story hews to known facts. Also, an intro might explain that Albert Parsons et al were about to hang for the provocative bombing of the Haymarket Trade Towers—wasn’t that the name? We need all the history we can get!
It’s good! I’d love to know how closely the story hews to known facts. Also, an intro might explain that Albert Parsons et al were about to hang for the provocative bombing of the Haymarket Trade Towers—wasn’t that the name? We need all the history we can get!
The “Comfortable” seldom want to hear uncomfortable truth. As the disparity of wealth continues to widen who among them Will suggest that the poor “eat cake”?
Courage like that now only exists on the “net,” where we all wriggle like trapped avian creatures, isolated, divided and conquered; where no vioce of inspiration or integrity can reach us.
If the above meeting were planned for today, the police would have fenced in the ‘socialists,’ and prevented M. Albert from entering the theater. Read the amendments to Patriot 2. Its all there. It happened in Miami….
Best to keep one’s head down, while the madness evolves. I pray it does not take the rest of us down with it - as if they’d care. The “Second Coming” is at hand, and they _deserve_ their riches as a sign of God’s favor, after all….
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Long live Albert Parson and the working class!
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