Lucy E. Parsons (1851 - March 7, 1942) on Class Warfare and Destroying the System(published by RevoltSource) |
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American Labor Organizer, Powerful Orator, Radical Socialist, Anarcho-communist, and Widow of the Executed Anarchist Albert Parsons
: An American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarcho-communist. She is remembered as a powerful orator. Parsons entered the radical movement following her marriage to newspaper editor Albert Parsons and moved with him from Texas to Chicago, where she contributed to the newspaper he famously edited, The Alarm. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“...be assured that you have spoken to these robbers in the only language which they have ever been able to understand, for they have never yet deigned to notice any petition from their slaves that they were not compelled to read by the red glare bursting from the cannon's mouths, or that was not handed to them upon the point of the sword.”
Source: "To Tramps, The Unemployed, the Disinherited, and Miserable," Lucy E. Parsons, Alarm, October 4, 1884.
"To Tramps, The Unemployed, the Disinherited, and Miserable," Lucy E. Parsons, Alarm, October 4, 1884.
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