[lbo-talk] 35-cent ice cream and anarchist theory

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri May 1 07:51:03 PDT 2009


Doug and Alan take issue with my lauding of Gompers.

If his trade union demands are too downmarket and grasping, will the Irish Revolutionary James Connolly and original socialist feminist Sylvia Pankhurst's claims do instead?

'Our demands most moderate are,' sang James Connolly, 'we only want the earth'

'We do not call for limitation of births, for penurious thrift, and self-denial', Sylvia Pankhurst wrote. 'We call for a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume,'



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