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History repeats
Poster from the Industrial Workers of the World published in SPOKANE WA.- 1912? The Wobblies of the PNW knew what was going on 100 years ago.
Notice the 4th level We Fool You
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)That's where our tv news media can fit.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)The US started the persecution of anti-capitalists a few years after this poster would have been printed. 800 people deported and the IWW outlawed in some states. Anyone who seemed vaguely "Red" was subject to attacks. One should also look at the level below-"We shoot at you". The Palmer Raids were the first operation (with help by a very junior man named J. Edgar Hoover) in 1919.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Same families. Same methods. Same objectives.
I got a reproduction of this in the 90's. If you look through the literature and paraphernalia of the Communist and Socialist movements going back before the Civil war everything will look exactly the same.
white_wolf
(6,238 posts)Warpy
(111,335 posts)There is a partial reprint at Tumblr