"Armed and organised, the striking miners unleashed their rage upon the Baldwin-Felts guards. They hid in the hills and sniped at individual guards, and squads of miners attacked companies of Baldwin-Felts men. In one instance, miners surrounded a camp of guards during the night, cleared away the underbrush, and silently waited till dawn. When the guards awoke and began preparing breakfast, the miners opened fire, killing 13 to 15 of them ... The miners blew up the tipples of operating mines and the trains carrying coal that had been mined by scabs. They met trains that were bringing strikebreakers to the strike zone and forced the potential scabs to evacuate – an action that often pitted black strikers against black strikebreakers and immigrant strikers against immigrant strikebreakers. The solidarity of black and white, Protestant and Catholic, immigrant and native miners was unbreakable."
It's interesting to read how united and militant the old left was. Goes to show how divided labor has become in the U.S. over past hundred years. Not much has really changed seeing as some of the biggest strikes in history are happening right now worldwide. The arms of the state have just gotten better at crushing dissent than in the past. Until now at least. Too bad for them it won't matter if they can't pay the employees of the alphabet soup agencies. When they can no longer quell people's discontent with gibs is when we'll see companies having to hire mercenaries again. Think I'd be right to assume the lot of you would happily be scabs and modern day Pinkertons.
Too bad the modern left abandoned populism in favor of trannies, Jews, and multinational corporations.
Cameron Wright
The left isn't a monolith like most media would lead you to believe. The radical left in the U.S. is anti-Israel. I'd also say there's a sizable amount of those on the left against identity politics as they distract from the class struggle. It's mostly "progressive" liberals that focus on identities other than class. Though I personally agree with the concepts of intersectionality, I see that the way they're talked about is nothing but divisive.
Alexander Stewart
Perhaps they had a valid point back then, but the Miners Strike which took place in the UK, back in the 1980s, was a joke. Collections were being taken by various lefty trade unions, etc, for "muh poor miners", but I wised up when I saw an interview with one of them saying "It's got so bad I'll need to sell my shares in British Coal now". They worked for the arguably one pf the most modernized companies going, had shares in the company, but still thought they deserved more. WTF? There were no moustachio-twirling plutocrats in top hats cracking whips upon their naked backs. The only person who gained from this was Scargill, who now refuses to leave the £2M house he was given to use by the NUM, despite no longer working for them. tl;dr = I'd gladly have been a strike-breaker for that shower of lazy bastards, and I would enjoy it.
Lincoln White
It’s shifted to a coalition of fringe americans. Gotta keep all those folks - who would otherwise be at each others throats, blacks vs indians vs asians vs jews - on the same side by focusing on the Great White Villain a la covington. The left took the easy power grab with minorities.
Jordan Morales
The radical left in the US is pro faggot, anti family, anti working class. The men in your effortpost OP would have beaten genderqueer trannies to death. Pic related.
There's no left anymore in the west. The whole neomarxist tranny rights cocksuckery is a capitalist psy-op to disarm and subvert the left and make it into a useful tool that would both scare normal people away from socialist ideology and serve as brown shirts against unwanted entities.
Note how it's always small companies and non-proprietary software developers that suffer from sjw freaks onslaught. Nobody would ever call microshit sexist or transophobic despite there not being a single woman or a tranny by now, since they don't mix well is poos, yet Linux is apparently problematic for them.
Aaron Walker
Everyone knows they are not monolithic. That's not the main problem. A great majority of leftists has aligned itself with a bohemian intelligentsia and a foreign Lumpenproletariat against the interests of actual workers. That is a problem.
Colton Martinez
Young leftist comes to Jow Forums, thinks he's going to own the fascists, gets blown the fuck out! Many such cases!
Angel Jenkins
It's all just difference in opinion and viewpoint really. Union members believe they're not being paid the full value of their labor. Extraction of surplus value for profit and all that. The left in the UK seems like it's always been a joke. At least we have the Troubles 2.0 to look forward to. The dissident IRA seem to be legitimately socialist.
Yet the presumably conservative values of the union men were compatible with their anti-capitalism. The opinions of middle class liberals are irrelevant. Faggots are still workers like anyone else that must sell their labor to survive.
Joshua Perez
>At least we have the Troubles 2.0 to look forward to. The dissident IRA seem to be legitimately socialist. The IRA 2019 are just a drug gang. You're such an edgy little prick, romanticizing scum who deserve to die. Ireland is getting BLACKED now and they even have a poo as their leader now, all due to your "genuine socialists". ...and show your flag or remain a fag. NO SURRENDER.
Kevin Edwards
>Yet the presumably conservative values of the union men were compatible with their anti-capitalism.
Who here is in favor of (((capitalism)))? Lurk more, faggot.
Brody Allen
Identity politics urges the working class faggot to march for the rights of the billionaire faggot to be as degenerate as his money allows.
Ian Reyes
Yep. This was a whole different breed of cat back then, The anti american left now would be beat down by these old workers. They came here to assimilate, build families and community. The degenerate fags now would be hung.
Asher Robinson
>Not much has really changed seeing as some of the biggest strikes in history are happening right now worldwide.
Except, you know, the whole 1917-proletariat-internationale thing.
Labor parties had their chance to build a better society, and they could not.
Liam Brooks
leftists like to pretend this is their political heritage while they advocate for the rights of the millions of scabs who crossed our southern border illegally
Wyatt Bennett
I don’t want to be a Pinkerton. I plaid Bioshock Infinate - I don’t imagine MC slepted well.
Hunter Perez
Labor parties encourage and demand equal pay and rights for all workers, so the human spirit to succeed for reward is muted. You bust your ass to build or make something nice and here comes (((schlomo))) """OY VEY! it's unfair I get nothing from this the poor other guy who couldn't deserves some compensation, he tried."" And the guy who just says you now what fuck it. why try. thus the death of any workers party.
Connor Fisher
Left is and always has been the party of the elite.
Adrian Baker
Not necessarily, but there always was and always will be a party of the elite and they will coopt populist movements when they can. OP is a wannabe populist but he's a posh little faggot, and he knows this.
Basically we need to expel the Jew, but that's a little too real for OP to comprehend yet.
Brayden Hall
It isn't just about a united Ireland. It's about putting an end to British imperialism for good and removing anglos in the process. The empire is gone and leaving the EU won't change that.
>Who here is in favor of (((capitalism)))? Apparently too many
That's the problem, vanguardism was a mistake. Revolutionary political parties can help guide people to build nations. Unfortunately they won't give direct control to the people who built th ed country because of the foundations the states were founded on. No government will willingly give up power. It isn't unique to Leninists.
Mason Wright
>OP is a wannabe populist but he's a posh little faggot, All he's done is romanticized shooting people, but offered nothing else, whilst hiding behind a memeflag. The left don't have much of idea how to build, or how to preserve that which is beneficial for all - but they certainly know how to destroy. Fuck Ireland, we don't want it. That nigger bitch was right. Show flag, faggot (I'm betting Germany here)
Owen Baker
>Apparently Nobody here is in favor of Jews controlling the country and exploiting the natives, faggot. You need to post less, and read more. You're a sheltered posh brat who's lacking in worldly experience.
Blake Phillips
I believe Israel shouldn't even exist. I could care less what the individual jew does. I hate capitalist jews just like I would any other parasite.
>The left don't have much of idea how to build, or how to preserve that which is beneficial for all Read a book some time and you might learn something. I suggest reading something from Peter Kropotkin.
>Show flag, faggot (I'm betting Germany here) I ain't hiding anything, I hate krauts almost as much as I do anglos
Julian Gray
>Read a book some time and you might learn something. I suggest reading something from Peter Kropotkin. Predictable as fuck. I've read more than you ever will, sonny. But whenever I shatter the illusions that leftists willingly blind themselves with, I'm never given a straight reply - I'm usually told to "Go read some 19th-century pamphlet by Boris Jerkoffski" or what have you. Fuck right off with that tactic. Your brazen idols of bearded idlers that you abuse yourselves before were torn down down in the 1990s, spat upon, trampled underfoot, and melted down for coin. But you were a sperm cell back then.
>I ain't hiding anything, I hate krauts almost as much as I do anglos Lel
>pretends to care about the American working class >spends time SEETHING about foreigners >doesn't understand or appreciate his heritage Definitely an upper middle class brat.
Jason Flores
Third position. You're welcome.
Hunter Peterson
So THIS is what you want us to read? Are you fucking kidding?
Yeah I'm sure you're a big brain who knows so many of the world's secrets. I'm not here to spoon feed you my ideology. If you're really interested in anarchist theory you'll seek it out. I was just giving Kropotkin as a suggestion because he wrote about mutual aid.
If I was upper middle class I wouldn't be a syndicalist because it wouldn't be in my class interests.
>anti-capitalism Rant: How about no more bailouts for banks, automotives, and pharma Industies. With tax money (that both corp politcal parties want to increase by the by) with Champage Socalist laws ripping off the taxpayers.
Brandon Collins
I think that's something we can all agree on. Personally I'd rather end the banks, taxes and politics entirely.
Ayden Scott
I thought you were away, stuffing yourself full of unleavened bread and bitter herbs? Anyway - why you do want to live your life according the words of a rich 19th century Jew who condescendingly pretended to care for the poor whilst pushing degeneracy?
Isaiah Mitchell
I don't wish to live according to anyone but myself and my community. I like the sentiments and the theories in his writings. It's that simple really. Why are people antisemitic because of what some drug addicted great war vet said? People agreed with what he said.
Jaxon Harris
The Kalergi plan is enough reason for me to despise them, and this has nothing to do with Hitler (who I'm not fond of, although I now have better insight as to his motivations, ie: an attempted revolution in Germany, led by the Jews, just as was the Russian Revolution). I don't want anybody but white Protestants administrating my white Protestant nation, they can fuck off to Israel if they want to play politics and do what they want from there.
