
Part Two: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
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The Anarchists Are Going to Level the City
Dynamite had actually been used in labor struggle before this, but no previous time hadit targeted people at all. This causes america's very first red scare, which we long and proud tradition of. It's kind of hard to overstate how unhinged this whole frenzy was. The reputation of anarchists in the u.S. Comes from Basically, the not picnics, not mutual aid societies, not supporting one another in labor struggle, just bombs. That's all an anarchist is, is a walking bomb, whichs i gess is i like to day. In total fairness, some of thea were not doing anything to dissuade that attitude.
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