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Diaries

Classic diaries: Let's see some optimism around here, eh?

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 1:35pm

Author's note: this is another diary from the classics over at Daily Kos, this one from 2013. I was responding to an obtuse diary titled "what happened to the energy of hope here at DailyKos?" which has since been deleted, thank goodness. Here I lay the ground for an optimistic alternative to the usual phoniness.

Hellraisers Journal: Review of John Spargo's "The Bitter Cry of the Children,” Enslaved at Ages 4 & 5!

Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 12:59pm

Capital has neither morals nor ideals; its interests are always
and everywhere expressible in terms of cash profits.
Capital in the United states in the twentieth century calls for children
as loudly as it called in England a century ago.
-John Spargo

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Friday March 16, 1906
From The New York Times: "The Children of the Poor," Part II

In its March 3rd edition, the Times published an in-depth review of the newly published book by John Spargo which documents the suffering of the millions of children who are born and reared in poverty within our great American prosperity. Yesterday we present part one of that review, entitled "Children of the Poor." We conclude the article today with part two.

CHILDREN OF THE POOR [Part II]
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A Passionless but Terrible Description of
Their Condition in This Country.*
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Bitter Cry, Spargo, Little Tenement Toilers, Feb 1906.png

It Is Time To Think The Unthinkable

Submitted by Szaephod on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 12:33pm

First, thank you, thank you, thank you, powers-that-be for making this forum, this lifeboat, this desert oasis of sanity available, this place to escape from that other place, that Daily… whatever.

And now, the unthinkable? Give up? Lose? Certainly not! But change our perspective and underlying assumptions about what we can and cannot do.

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