The Ludlow Massacre
Progressives today don’t have to reinvent the wheel. We’re fighting for the same things progressives, liberals, radicals have always fought for: democracy applied broadly, justice applied equally, a fair distribution of our nation’s resources. We can look back and see what worked and what didn’t for our forbears. We can examine what kinds of people, and philosophies, and systems opposed them. Then we can look and see the very same kinds of people, and philosophies, and systems opposing us today.
This is a general them I thinkl is lacking in today’s blog world, where we fight for every news cycle.
That’s one reason I’m writing this post. Another reason is that, ever since I first read about Ludlow, in the “early springtime” I get that tune in my head.
