tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282058542643659653.post6926744620271612433..comments2024-01-27T16:02:00.027-05:00Comments on Marxist update: PSL's Lucy Parsons, and oursJay Rothermelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09531989615494104215noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282058542643659653.post-71866626481823083552012-03-11T07:57:27.732-04:002012-03-11T07:57:27.732-04:00Thank you for your comment, Tim. It would be more...Thank you for your comment, Tim. It would be more accurate to say it was a half-biography,designed to be palatable to anti-communists. Within 10 days PSL also posted and then withdrew without comment an article endorsing the views of Antonio Gramsci.Jay Rothermelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531989615494104215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282058542643659653.post-20854576136523188942012-03-11T05:51:36.142-04:002012-03-11T05:51:36.142-04:00Ridiculous. It was a quick profile of Parson's...Ridiculous. It was a quick profile of Parson's not a complete biography.Timthesocialisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08216413170737243733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282058542643659653.post-68854445854309281082012-02-08T18:47:01.707-05:002012-02-08T18:47:01.707-05:00Lucy Parsons, born in 1853, joined the Socialist L...Lucy Parsons, born in 1853, joined the Socialist Labor Party and fought for the rights of labor, Blacks and women until her death in 1942. She started as an anarchist demanding the abolition of all forms of political authority. In the early 1900s she worked in the radical Chicago Work ing Women's Union and the Socialist Labor Party, and she was one of the first women to join the International Workers of the World (IWW). At the founding convention of the IWW, Parsons dealt with the subjugation of women by noting "wherever wages are to be reduced, the capitalist class uses women to reduce them." In 1939 Lucy joined the Com mu nist Party (CPUSA) and spent the last years of her life building that party during its militant days.<br /><br />http://www.workers.org/2005/us/verdieu-0317/index.htmlJay Rothermelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531989615494104215noreply@blogger.com