Module 3: Struggles Against Capitalism in the 19th Century
In this class we’ll discuss the social history of the anarchist millieu in Chicago in the late nineteenth century. The community around the famous Haymarket martyrs was perhaps the strongest anarchist scene in the world at the time, and the intense class struggle they took part in had national and international ramifications. A broader view of these famous events reveals how Chicago anarchism fits into the history of anti-state and anti-capitalist struggle as well as the repression of movements that fight for a different world.
Required Reading
James Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America, Ch. 8, "The International"
Lucy Parsons, "Principles of Anarchism." Freedom, Equality & Solidarity: Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937, ed. Gale Ahrens.
Recommended Reading
James Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy
David Roediger and Franklin Rosemont, eds., Haymarket Scrapbook
Carolyn Ashbaugh, Lucy Parsons: American Revolution