Class Struggle

Star Terk and Class Struggle, a New Open Thread Series: The Romulans and Remans

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Fri, 09/28/2018 - 5:11pm

I'd like to try something...new. Star Trek is something I grew up with. It wasn't like many shows on TV in that it explored what was possible. And given my recent forays into subjects such as class struggle and revolution, I thought it would be interesting to delve into the class struggles of the various peoples and factions introduced throughout each TV series and in other media, including tabletop and video games.

Identity Politics as a Business Model and the Class Struggle it Blatantly Ignores

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Sun, 09/02/2018 - 1:43pm

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q260GXNUKlU]

At this point, the IdPol crowd may as well support feckless cunts (Yeah, I said it) like Ivanka Trump.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj13ls363_Q]

Hellraisers Journal: Haywood: "It is good to know that at last the working class are aroused."

Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 12:55pm

There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday June 2, 1906
From Ada County Jail: A Letter from Big Bill Haywood

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones: "I try to go, wherever there is a chance for a good fight against high-class burglars."

Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 05/15/2016 - 12:57pm
I try to go, wherever there is a chance for a good fight
against high-class burglars, and I am kept
pretty busy most of the time.
-Mother Jones
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Monday May 15, 1916
Chanute, Kansas - Mother Jones Passing Through on Way to Kansas City

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WE NEVER FORGET: The "Gallant Boy," Don MacGregor

Submitted by JayRaye on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 12:30pm
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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WE NEVER FORGET
Don MacGregor-28
Who lost his life in freedom's cause at
Miñaca, Chihuahua, México,
March 28, 1916
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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones with her snowy hair "is the very ideal of beautiful old age."

Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 02/09/2016 - 12:56pm

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

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Friday February 9, 1906
Greensboro, North Carolina - Interview with Mother Jones

The Daily Industrial News of Greensboro published the following interview with Mother Jones in its February 7th edition:

MOTHER JONES TELLS OF HER MISSION IN LIFE
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Noted Socialist Visits Greensboro and Chats Most Entertainingly of Her Work,
Her Purpose and the Tactics She Invariably Pursues.
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"Mother" Jones, the noted socialist who is to speak in Labor Union Hall on tomorrow night, came to this city two days ago. She was seen by a Daily Industrial News reporter last night, and talked freely of her life and work.

So many people picture "Mother" Jones as a kind of Carrie Nation who wields her hatchet against governments instead of saloons that the sight of the real woman fairly takes away the breath.

The best description of "Mother" Jones is her own soubriquet "mother," and when to that wholesome-hearted out-reaching motherliness is added humor, even mischievousness, jollity, and "spunk" immeasurable the reality is almost approached.

To reach it quite, however, would be impossible, for "Mother" Jones is one of those indescribable little persons who always just eludes description and analysis. Classify her as a woman fighter and striker, and her tender, sweet gentleness comes up in contradiction. Classify her as the woman with heart so exquisitely sympathetic and pitying that it aches for every hurt suffered by a fellow creature and the picture of the intrepid woman marching at the head of a great army of workmen baffles one.