Jamie Gaehring

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RE: @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

"Michael 'Mike' Gold was the pen name of Jewish-American writer Itzhok Isaak Granich, a prolific writer, editor, and literary critic of the American proletarian literature movement in the 1930s and 1940s. In April 1914, he was beaten by a police officer while attending an anti-capitalist speech in Union Square, New York City; he bought his first issue of the socialist journal The Masses the very next day, and became a lifelong communist. [...] Besides his commitment to communism, the American Civil War also was a great influence on his work: His pen name was supposedly lifted from a Jewish Union army veteran. Life of John Brown was his first published book, and he later wrote a play, Battle Hymn, based on Brown’s life. Despite his significant literary contributions and fame (his only novel, Jews without Money, went through eleven reprints in its first year alone), he was a marginalized figure during the McCarthy era due to the persecution of communists both real and perceived."

Just found this interview with some old volunteers that joined the Abe Lincoln XV Int'l Brigade in Catalonia 1937. It was recorded for Pacifica Radio in 1971, nice Pete Seeger soundtrack, too.

I believe all four vets are my New Yorker forebears, but my fave is Maury Kolow from Brownsville, who talks about labor organizing and running in gangs on Pitkin Ave during the Depression and how they decided to join the fight against fascism.

¡No pasarán! 🏴󠁥󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

https://archive.org/details/pra-BC0376

@Matt_Noyes@social.coop (b/c I know you'll appreciate) there's only a brief mention of the Succession of the Plebs at the end here — in particular a brilliant observation on Plutarch's framing of it in his Life of Coriolanus – but this entire interview w Curtis Dozier on Tribunate (everyone: follow their channel!) is remarkable for how it lays bare the ways "western canon" has so effectively erased uncountable histories of oppressed peoples.

https://youtu.be/mu8xBLZ9qw0?si=VDJ9Ykj1-CfYk5Ri

Clearly there are worse sins in this world than blog posts that don't include the pub date & author above-the-fold where it's easy to find w/o scrolling, but then again, part of me wonders how such tiny acts of violence may have led us to this new age of petro-totalitarianism that we find ourselves in today.

Unscrupulous cowards, all of em. 🤬

https://capitalandempire.com/p/top-democrats-try-to-stop-vote-that

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