[lbo-talk] Albert Parsons

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Mon Apr 24 06:15:21 PDT 2006


Chuck

Albert Parsons was a radical socialist? The Illinois Labor History School of Haymarket Falsification has captured Wikipedia too? Right, Wikipedia being the place where any fucking idiot who can figure out the "edit" button can add their "knowledge" to entries. Like this crap about an anarchist being a "radical socialist."

^^^^^^ CB; Seems like he might be termed an "anarcho-syndicalist" , since he was fighting for a shorter work day. He had been a radical Republican , evidently. Was there really much contradiction between being an anarchist and socialist at this time in Chicago ? Big Bill Haywood is buried in the Kremlin. CP supported Sacco and Vanzetti, etc. May Day certainly is associated with Communists.

Aren't there lots of anarchist positions ? Are you sure Parsons' theory was not a mixture of anarchist and socialist ?

Bit of a paradox in that the Wikipedia setup is somewhat anarchistic , no ? Who decides whose a "fucking idiot" ? Wouldn't that be a hierarchy if someone controlled the entries ?



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