Jack Devine

Historian and Unionist @PSCCUNYGC @csinews @CityCollegeNY

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[Jack Devine @Devine511]

@herr_naphta @hecubian_devil But if you address the shortage without a broader overhaul of a political economy organized around asset price inflation then you’d trigger an entirely new, dangerous set of social problems if property values drastically decline. It’s a delicate balance for reformers to strike

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@tonyannett There’s a radical American tradition espoused by democratic republican laborists who denounced mastery in the workplace that carried the legacy of the antislavery movement through the Eight Hour Movement to Knights of Labor to the CIO’s industrial democratic unionism

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@mike_slugs The Red Scare did greater damage to the labor left coalition epitomized by the CIO but you’re absolutely right that the admission and denunciation of Stalinist brutality by the Soviets proved to be the nail in the coffin for most of the true believers who remained in the CPUSA

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@daniel_dsj2110 Both the most successful left-wing movements in US history from antislavery to the CIO to civil rights as well as charismatic socialist leaders like Eugene Debs utilized patriotic rhetoric to great effect. Giving up the past to chauvinistic conservatives has been disastrous

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@Sulliedsubjects @barbarismcrit Many of these candidates as well as union leaders who don’t identify as socialists still fit within a larger American Radical Tradition that denounces concentrations of wealth & power through a democratic republican rhetoric that centers labor as the protagonist of US history

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@Sulliedsubjects The Last Jedi is by far the most compelling of the sequels but can’t fully escape the limitations of the narrative framework it was operating in while Andor (& Rogue One to an extent) examine the most intriguing aspects of Star Wars that should be the basis of future projects

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@herr_naphta I mean not only did Marx take other classes very seriously in his political writings (like in the New York Daily Tribune), but this was also a substantial worry of American intellectuals considering the decline propriety republicanism and the rise of the labor question

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@mindyisser Not exactly what you’re looking for but related and seemingly up your alley is Josh Freeman’s In Transit which traces the role that IRA veterans and their cultural institutions had in organizing the TWU in New York

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@TeaGeeGeePea @PhilWMagness @GregGrandin Social democratic parties in various countries with differing levels of Marxian influence significantly shaped electoral politics, organized labor, and social movements prior to 1917 and continued to do afterwards (often in opposition to Leninism)

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@verbluffen_ @3BostonBoys @JohnWakefieId @ettingermentum They were the left wing party of the time that proclaimed the Jeffersonian principles of the Declaration of Independence and further extended its democratic republicanism by applying it to social relations

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@verbluffen_ @3BostonBoys @JohnWakefieId @ettingermentum The main electoral base of the Republican Party were owner operator farmers and relatively highly paid artisans who embraced a free labor movement ideology that placed labor as the main protagonist of civilization progress with a program of dramatic government intervention

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@sunraysunray The right to unionize, strike, and collectively bargain is a fulfillment of the free labor principles that destroyed the barbarism of slavery. As John Lewis said, “With Abraham Lincoln I thank God that we have a country where men may strike.”

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@mike_slugs It’s more that Republicans believed that the dramatic economic transformations of abolishing slavery and establishing public education would be enough alongside citizenship and the vote while growing increasingly fearful of empowering unruly labor both north and south

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@dennismhogan Effusive praise for the bourgeoisie is literally in the Communist Manifesto. European capitalists proved to disappoint Marx during the 1848 revolutions though. Yet Americans lived up to his expectations during the US Civil War

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@wellstonism The mast movement for antislavery politics claimed the spirit of 1776. Marx recognized this & agreed they were the true inheritors of the American Revolution. Adherents to the American Radical Tradition have emphasized their intention to realize their democratic republican vision

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@comradejumpshot Not exactly a specific critique of Horne but I’d start with some of James Oakes’ work on the contradictory relationship between liberalism, slavery, and capitalism but I’ll email you a more complete list

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@comradejumpshot How do you square Horne’s argument about a proslavery counterrevolution of 1776 with the fact that newly formed states in the heart of revolutionary activity abolished slavery (many in the first democratic emancipations in history)? It created the debate and conflict!