https://twitter.com/BrianMteleSUR/status/1432413459627614219

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's the original socialist state that experienced a slow and brutal Republican takeover. It still has a latent left tradition and it's still overall left leaning - despite this the Republicans have a legislative supermajority due to flagrant gerrymandering.

      Literally 1 train going from Milwaukee to Madison would permanently turn it into a reliable blue state with room to move left. Which is why the Republicans desperately killed the proposed train project in 2010 despite it being fully federally funded

        • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Used to be an important hotbed for American Socialists, too.

          :deeper-sadness:

          Milwaukee is a city of contrasts.

          • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I wonder now if they were explicitly only fighting for white labor rights. Settlers does a great job showing how the vast majority of historical labor movements in the u.s. essentially sabotaged themselves by organizing along explicitly racial lines, excluding black workers, and then ultimately blaming them when they got wrecked from the inside by capitalist deal making.

            • SerLava [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              I'm sure people were racist as fuck in 1920 but I think a big factor is that Milwaukee didn't get Black migration until much later than the rest of the North, in like the 60's and 70's

            • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              IDK to be honest, though it would not surprise me.

              I have a Frank Zeidler biography laying around somewhere I could read and learn a little more about it.