the uses Russell makes of this background material. Two main kinds of people fled Europe to live in North America in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries: individualists a puritan theocracy on these shores without interference from the selfsame European political authorities who were interfering with the individualists. Some so that “absenteeism workplace sabotage, insubordination toward managers and union stewards, and other forms of industrial disobedience” became steadily more
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the beginning of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the McCarthy Era — as they might have been seen by politicians and journalists reasons for believing the United States should hold onto the Philippines. “The European powers are getting ready to divide up China,” he tells McKinley. “We’ll lose
written in 1937, I learned a few things about Rudolf Rocker. It seemed he was a European-style anarchist, an anarchocommunist. He was born in Mainz, Germany, in 1873, just eight years before, some 800 miles away, in Eastern Europe, in what is today the Ukraine, Ludwig von Mises was born. Rudolf Rocker’s of privileged minorities in society. A people is the natural result of social union, a mutual association of men brought about by a certain similarity of external
yet 18 years old, she was living on her own in Kansas City, working for Western Union. For the next five years, Rose operated telegraphs in Missouri, Indiana, and No; Labor produces everything. Then, if all working men, organized in trade-unions, compelled all Capitalists to pay in wages the full value of their labor, they of the ‘30s, Lane wrote, was “the choice between American individualism and European national socialism.” Unfortunately, as Lane saw it, there was no American
distinguishing mark of American education; it was called “the American system” by Europeans. The texts were substitutes for well-trained teachers; in some parts of the students for colleges and universities concentrated on classical studies and European history.” But as the 1890s dawned, the “public high schools” for the first Army of the Republic, a veterans’ organization for soldiers who had fought in the Union Army during the US Civil War, had formed a “school history committee” and had
Frick set them upon striking members of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers Union. Several of the strikers were killed. Illustration from Harper’s Weekly , 1892, Unique Book Shop when she was 27 years old and he was 52. She wound up moving to Europe with him and living with him for the rest of his life as his live-in her rapid drift in the direction of American libertarianism and away from the European anarchism that dominated the earlier part of her intellectual and radical
of taking classes toward a PhD, she won a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Europe for an academic year. On the trip over aboard ship, she met another Fulbright fantasy, some science fiction, some realistic fiction set in an imaginary Central European country called Orsinia. At least one of her works set in Orsinia would and the state provides all desired goods and services to whomever requests them. A union of opposites. $15 $12 As for the ambiguity in Delany’s fictional society, that
with tax cuts and spending on the military in the face of a collapsing Soviet Union.” [4] Then there was Reagan’s policy on international trade. “Our trade Spain, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Finland, Australia, and the European Community, to accept ‘voluntary restraint agreements’ that reduced their
Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, first as an associate professor of European history, then as Professor of the History of Thought and Culture. Later, US wartime policies had been self-serving, reflecting an eagerness to cash in on Europe‘s misfortune. A phony neutrality permitted a massive trade in arms with the a leg lopped off — twelve-year-olds, thirteen-year-olds, fourteen-year-olds. The Union Army was loaded with children. I’m sure the same was true in the South too. Big
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