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[–] 78 points 4 months ago (6 children)

"Damn that sounds pretty significant, I learned about similar events in school but definitely never this. I wonder if it's as big as the post implies or if it's being exag-"

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War.

"... Huh."

Well I see why they left this one out.

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  • [–] 40 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah, it would give folks ideas

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Or we organize our own industrial worker cooperatives and try to avoid a shooting war.

    Organize workers into a co-op, negotiate staffing agreements with the capitalists, and use the staffing margin to fund a business plan for the co-op to operate.

    And then of course, drop the staffing contracts when they're no longer needed. Too bad so sad, find your own workers now.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Guess what the ownership class does when they notice these things happening. Hint: it involves so many bullets.

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