Discovery Of Witches by Matthew Hopkins, Frontispiece, 1647 Photograph by Folger Shakespeare Library. This shows supposed witches naming their familiar spirits.
On this day, 3 August 1913 in California, the Wheatland hop riot took place after a farm labourers’ meeting with the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union was broken up by police, leaving four dead and two leading organisers framed on murder charges.
In our podcast episode 6 we tell the story of the IWW around this time: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/wch-e6-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-in-the-us-1905-1918/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1776181505900325/?type=3
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt the tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity (via philosophybits) |
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