Virginia and Jefferson (United Mine Workers of America)

Chris Brooke chris.brooke at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk
Wed Aug 22 11:58:40 PDT 2001


It's nice to be reminded of the workers and peasants of the (South?) Bronx.

Michael Lind has Trotsky "reportedly" beginning his address this way; and whenever I've come across the phrase it has never been reliably sourced -- is there a better, reliable, contemporary source for this quotation?

Ditto for Oscar Wilde's famous (alleged) remark that socialism would take "too many evenings" (which crops up everywhere, perhaps most recently in the Albert/Horowitz exchange). Anyone know where it first surfaced, or who first reported it?


>WHY WILL THERE BE NO REVOLUTION IN THE US Lind - Left ...
>... to mind the obliviousness to American political reality of Trotsky, who
>reportedly once began an address with the words, "Workers and
>peasants of the Bronx ".

Chris



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