[lbo-talk] doom

[Jim Devine]

John Adams: >The claim was that the bucks themselves are a building
block. Accepting
that is tantamount to giving up unless George Soros shows up to fund
the revolution. Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote a novel about an anarchist
banker, so I guess that holds out some hope.<

at the start of the 20th century, there was a millionaire in the
Chicago North Shore area (in Winnetka) named Willam Bross Lloyd (son
of the newspaperman and philanthropist Henry Demarest Lloyd), who
helped to fund the Socialist Party and ran for U.S. senator as a
Socialist in 1918. He was tried in 1920 for being a communist as a
result of the Palmer Raids (he one of the organizers of the Communist
Labor party in America) and defended by Clarence Darrow.

There's a statue of him, hidden behind some bushes, with a socialist
slogan on it. I think it may be "workers of the world unite!"

There's also a beach named after his family.
--
Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles