You hear people ask why the white working class went from resentful to bat-shit insane right around the time Obama got into office.
Therefore it must have been racism.
Except that Obama is gone and the white working class is still just as angry.
Therefore it must be...racism?
Take a look at this chart.
The changes in this country regarding income inequality since 1980 are a direct consequence of the policies, acts, bills, and other actions created and taken, or not taken, by our representative government during the 1980 to present time period and some years prior.
Our sham elections have no longer any resemblance of democracy. I have been silently watching for a while. What is there to say that is not being turned into a drum beat.
I am 80 years old and it is quite clear that having participated in elections all those years only shows how much the system has the power to totally boggle otherwise functioning minds. Once one sees through the con game there is no going back.
Sunday May 7, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: "Hands 'Round the World"
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Friday March 17, 1916
From The Masses: "Do You Believe in Patriotism?" Part I
In the March issue of The Masses, various Socialist writers respond to the question, "Do you believe in Patriotism?" Today Hellraisers features the answers to that question from two prominent Socialist women, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Sara Bard Field. Tomorrow's edition will feature the responses of John Sloan and Charles Erskine Scott Wood. K. R. Chamberlin also offers an artistic answer to the question:
Artist K. R. Chamberlain on Patriotism
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Sunday March 11, 1906
From the "Rescue Edition" of the Appeal to Reason: Debs Issues Call to Action
Down the center of the entire front page of Saturday's edition of the Appeal, Comrade Debs issues a call to action to protest the attempted judicial murder of the officers of the Western Federation of Miners.
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Saturday March 10, 1906
From the Montana News: Comrade Debs Speaks, Warns Plutocrats
From this week's edition of the Montana News:
Debs' Stirring Message.
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Calls Working Class to Prepare for Action
to Prevent Judicial Murder.
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What I have to say about the latest and boldest stroke of the plutocracy will require but little space. It is not talk that is wanted but action.
The issue is clear. There can be no mistake about it.
The labor leaders that cannot be bribed or bullied must be ambushed and murdered. That is the situation in a nutshell. How shall we meet it? In just one way. We have got to fight.
Another Haymarket attempt will precipitate a revolution.
If murder must be committed it is not the working class alone that will furnish the victims this time.
Moyer, Haywood and their colleagues are absolutely innocent. The writer knows them to the heart's core and will stake his all on them.
The only crime they are guilty of is that they are unswervingly true to the working class, and the working class can do no less than stand by them to the finish.
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Saturday March 3, 1906
From the Montana News: Official Call from Industrial Workers of the World
The February 28th edition of the official newspaper of the Socialist Party in Montana published the following appeal from the I. W. W. which calls for the working class men and women of America to rally to the defense of Charles Moyer and Bill Haywood:
Official Call To Action
-----Stirring Appeal Sent Out by Industrial Workers
as Result of Mine Owners' Conspiracy.
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Beginning at the Coeur d' Alene in 1897 a reign of lawless violence has been waged by the capitalist class in the western states, one phase of which was the unparalleled series of outrages perpetrated against the laborers of Colorado. Throughout this conspiracy there had been continuous attempts to crush the labor organizations of the miners by seeking to foist upon them the crimes committed by the capitalist conspirators themselves. Every one of these attempts has failed. In spite of suborned witnesses and terrorized and corrupt juries, every case has ended in complete acquittal. The failure of the conspirators' diabolical schemes has filled them with desperation.
The 1848 Revolution
"We are sleeping together on a volcano . . . A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
