So since I mentioned that infamous and terrible tome The South Was Right! in a previous post, it got me to thinking.
First off, stay far, far away from J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and any damnfool who tells you to read it. It’s all bootstrapping nativist garbage; Vance is a liar, a snitch, and worst of all, a yankee. What you should read instead:
Dixie be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
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“Far from the picturesque
antebellum plantations and meekly repressed slaves of popular mythology,
the American South has always had its share of social rebellion. Here,
seven accounts of insurrectionary episodes in Southern history are tied
together into a larger narrative about the long arc of revolt in the
South. Countering images of the region as pacified and universally
conservative, this adventurous alternative history covers slave
rebellions, stockade burnings, multiracial banditry, labour struggles,
prison uprisings, urban riots, and more.”
Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
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“Telling the powerful
story of the West Virginia coal mining rebellions of the early 20th
century, this book collects material from the leaders, the miners, and
the journalists sent to report on the 1912 and 1921 West Virginia mine
wars—explosive examples of strikes and union battles. Featured in the
text are articles, speeches, and discussions between union leaders such
as Samuel Gompers, Frank Keeney, Fred Mooney, Bill Blizzard, and Mother
Jones. Also included are U.S. Senate committee testimonies from miners
and their family members describing life and work in the coal camps and
explaining their participation in the violence. These facts clearly
portray the human cost of industry and present the hard choices of
a rebellious and often politically radical populace who refuses to be
beleaguered under any circumstances.”
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
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“Between 1929 and 1941,
the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist
movement in Alabama – the center of Party activity in the Depression
South. Hammer and Hoe documents the efforts of the Alabama
Communist Party and its allies to secure racial, economic, and political
reforms. Sensitive to the complexities of gender, race, culture and
class without compromising the political narrative, Robin Kelley
illustrates one of the most unique and least understood radical
movements in American history.
The Alabama Communist Party was
built from scratch by working people who had no Euro-American radical
political tradition. It was composed largely of poor blacks, most of
whom were semiliterate and devoutly religious, but it also attracted a
handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, iconoclastic
youth, and renegade liberals. Kelley shows that the cultural identities
of these people from Alabama’s farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and
city streets shaped the development of the Party. The result was a
remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little
tolerance for radicals.
In the South race pervaded virtually
every aspect of Communist activity. And because the Party’s call for
voting rights, racial equality, equal wages for women, and land for
landless farmers represented a fundamental challenge to the society and
economy of the South, it is not surprising that Party organizers faced a
constant wave of violence.
Kelley’s analysis ranges broadly,
examining such topics as the Party’s challenge to black middle-class
leadership; the social, ideological, and cultural roots of black
working-class radicalism; Communist efforts to build alliances with
Southern liberals; and the emergence of a left-wing, interracial youth
movement. He closes with a discussion of the Alabama Communist Party’s
demise and its legacy for future civil rights activism.”
Hammer And Hoe also contains the following passage, which watered my depression cleared my crops and cured my skin:
“I asked Mr. Johnson how the union succeeded in winning some of their demands; without the slightest hesitation, he reached into the drawer of his nightstand and pulled out a dog-eared copy of V.I. Lenin’s What Is To Be Done? and a box of shotgun shells, set both firmly on the bed beside me, and said, ‘Right thar, theory and practice. That’s how we done it. Theory and practice.’”
Any fellow southerners here should check out Redneck Revolt. Plus the SRA has several southern chapters. Big shout out to all the anarchists in the Appalachias too.
>the SRA
Let me very very strongly caution everyone *against* joining a creepy ultraleftist militia run by a petit-bourgeois wrecker. At least if you plan on staying out of jail.
I say this as a person who was in on the ground floor of the original SRA, before that weirdo got in and fucked it up.
SRA used to be one of the most promising orgs on the radical left but nowadays its only useful purpose is as a series of Facebook pages for me to steal pictures of guns from
I swear people that yell about Freeze Peach have no idea what it means. If you provoke someone and then they act on that provication, then it’s on you, not them.
Freedom of speech just means the government can’t tell you what to say.
Reblog to piss off a Nazi!
Nazism is a call for genocide, a literal incitement to violence. That punch didnt start the fight but it did finish it.
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Nazism is a call for genocide, a literal incitement to violence. That punch didnt start the fight but it did finish it.
Don’t just punch nazis. Stomp their heads, shoot them, beat them with rocks, stab them, kill them.
“This is the wasteland of the Western Front. It is the great putrid scar of mud and decaying, rotting flesh that’s been cut across the face of Europe. This is the work of a man who was trapped inside his own recurring nightmare. Otto Dix and his generation had borne witness to these horrors, but they’d also been witness to the death of the 19th century faith in inevitable, unstoppable progress. What they’d learned in the trenches was that savagery and barbarism weren’t external, to be found only in the colonies, but inside all of us. They had seen that industry and progress and the supposed triumph of Enlightenment rationalism did not guarantee the survival of civilisation. And it was them, the poets and the artists and the painters of the trenches, who best understood what Europe had been through and who best foresaw the horrors that lay ahead.”
David Olusoga, The Cult of Progress, Civilisations (BBC 2018)
Finished this beautiful coyote skull today! This is the largest coyote I’ve had my hands on in a number of years and is a whopping 9 &½" long! I sold my last 9" one and I always kinda regretted it, so this one is staying with me lol. I have a few others in this batch that do rival his size that will be for sale as they get cleaned up! The first batch will be ready in a few days <3! (instagram)
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