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Marcus Rediker joins TSBU to talk the genius of liberation, the motely Atlantic Proletariat, and an 18th-cent. Quaker named Ben Lay w/ a radical critique of capitalism and a dramatic theatricality that was way ahead of his time! #abolition #liberation #USHistory #podcast @marcusrediker.bsky.social

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Great story this week by @nickgiraffe.bsky.social about the Legion taking over Mosinee, WI on May Day, 1950 and turning it into the "United Soviet States of America". Featuring high-effort pageantry, borscht lines, public mock executions, and even a couple of mysterious casualties...

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@thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@nickgiraffe.bsky.social In 1950, the American Legion organized a "high-effort LARP", transforming Mosinee, WI into the the "United Soviet States of America", complete with borscht, detention camps, and mock executions on "Red Square". #ushistory #mayday #redscare #uspolitics #socialism

1/7: Thread to add to @crimethinc.com article: "Samuel Gompers, a founder of the AFL and...opponent of immigration, anarchism, socialism, and, later, the [IWW], supported the federal government in crushing the Pullman Strike and backed Grover Cleveland’s effort to undermine the momentum of May Day."

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A century and a half of rebellions, uprisings, daring escapes, and adventures celebrating May Day and our collective capacity for freedom and self-determination.

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