<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> one complaint i had with the production was the portrayal of the labor history  of the period.  there were numerous statements /conjectures that goldman was blinded to the "american" laborer's mentality.  the implication seemed to be that all workers really wanted was a shorter work week and  slightly better pay/working conditions - i.e. they weren't interested in any of that communism/socialism/end-of-capitalism malarkey.  almost all the violence seemed to be attributed to fanatical, fringe self-proclaimed  representatives of the workers. the  real struggle of workers  against the pervasive violence of the anti-union capitalists was ignored and  somehow turned into peaceful negotiations that were sporadically interrupted by the misguided "terrorists."  the ideological lesson is of course that workers still embrace capitalism and all the wonderful benefits it brings; any disputes are  simply market-type mechanisms that address a few "imbalances." all-in-all a very post-reagan, post 9/11 depiction of working class struggle in the U.S. </body> </html>