Seriously, this must be awkward for the Reds.
This beauty sold for more than $25K. Wonder what Debs would make of that!! cc @APIC _USA pic.twitter.com/jCWBpH4ZmG
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 25, 2015
Going clockwise, you’ve got:
- Unrestricted trade:
- Secret ballots:
- Flagrant carbon emissions
- Automation
- Mechanized agriculture
- COAL COAL COAL ZOMG COAL
- And COAL COAL COAL ZOMG THEY’RE BURNING COAL
Also: everybody in the picture is white and male. They couldn’t even bring in a black dude to be one of the two shaking hands in the logo. Seriously, if Eugene Debs was running today they’d drum him out of the Movement. Probably while flinging stones.
Moe Lane
It looks too happy.
“Oppression, people! Give me oppression! More orphans; can we get some boot in the face already? Pinkertons! Where are my Pinkertons?”
And – just by-the-by – the party leaders were expected to look respectable, and the supporters were expected to be sober, clean, upright, virtuous, and have a job. The socialists were all for the producers of wealth, and had little good to say about those who could produce wealth but did nothing more than consume it – ripping their bread from the brows of those who labor.
*looks around at today’s socialists*
Yeah, right. Get back to work, serf; me and my voters need your “support”. A-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
“little good to say about those who could NOT produce wealth…”
Is the man at the bottom loading hay black?