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[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

Holy shit who is this woman? Don't know the name but I am interested in reading more of what she has to say.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 111 points 1 week ago

Lucy Parsons, born a slave and later a widely known anarchist, declared in one of her most famous speeches:

How many of the wage class, as a class, are there who can avoid obeying the commands of the master (employing) class, as a class? Not many, are there? Then are you not slaves to the money power as much as were the black slaves to the Southern slaveholders? Then we ask you again: What are you going to do about it? You had the ballot then. Could you have voted away black slavery? You know you could not because the slaveholders would not hear of such a thing for the same reason you can’t vote yourselves out of wage-slavery.

from this article in jacoffbin

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Put her in civ 6 too

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 83 points 1 week ago

from natopedia

Lucy E. Parsons (c. 1851 – 1942) was an American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist

She was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World and edited radical newspapers.

Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, Parsons moved towards communism. She became a notorious political figure and Chicago police attempted for decades to stop her speaking publicly.

Every day I learn about a new cool person from history, it never stops.

[-] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What remains of the IWW in the USA has a framed sweater she knitted for Albert her husband while he was on death row because a bomb thrown by an unknown killed some cops at at a strike he was an organiser for.

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Lucy Parsons was unfathomably based and we really should talk about her more here.

[-] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

As someone else mentioned, she was the wife of Albert Parsons, one of the Haymarket Riot martyrs

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