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I thought John Reed was buried there too.
And on the matter of Albert Parsons, let the man speak for himself:
Socialism is a term which covers the whole range of human progress and advancement.... I think I have a right to speak of this matter, because I am tried here as a socialist. I am condemned as a socialist.... If you are going to put me to death, then let the people know what it is for. Socialism is defined by Webster as "a theory of society which advocates a more precise, more orderly, and more harmonious arrangement of the social relations of mankind than has hitherto prevailed." Therefore everything in the line of progress, in civilization in fact, is socialistic.
There are two distinct phases of socialism in the labor movement throughout the world today. One is known as anarchism, without political government or authority; the other is known as state socialism or paternalism, or governmental control of everything. The state socialist seeks to ameliorate and emancipate the wage laborers by means of law, by legislative enactments. The state socialists demand the right to choose their own rulers. Anarchists would have neither rulers nor lawmakers of any kind. The anarchists seek the same ends--the abolition of wage-slavery by the abrogation of law, by the abolition of all government, leaving the people free to unite or disunite as fancy or interest may dictate, coercing no one....
http://www.uwm.edu/Course/448-440/parsons.htm
Best, Mike B)
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