Marcus Thrane, born on this day in 1817, was a socialist labor activist who founded the first organized workers' movement in Norway. After a union he founded petitioned the King for universal suffrage and legal equality, Thrane was imprisoned.
Born into a bourgeois family, Thrane was orphaned at the early age of 15 and spent the rest of his youth studying abroad in Europe. He returned to Norway, working as an educator.
In 1848, Thrane began working as the editor of the local newspaper Drammens Adresse. Inspired by the February Revolution in France, Thrane expressed radical political opinions and was dismissed from the position after less than a year.
Around this time, Thrane founded the Drammens arbeiderforening (Drammen Labour Union) and began publishing the union's paper. Between 1849-50, the trade union movement (also called the Thranite Movement) grew very quickly, to approximately 30,000 members.
Members of the Thranite Movement were both urban and rural - both small farmers in the countryside and urban craftsmen participated.
This trade union movement is often associated with a petition presented to King Oscar I on May 19th, 1850. The petition, backed by nearly 13,000 signatures, demanded universal suffrage, abolition of protective tariffs, reform of the public school, and improvement of householders ' conditions.
Over the following years, this growing labor movement was repressed by the state - its leadership, including Thrane, were surveilled, arrested on false charges, and imprisoned. These tactics successfully broke the Thranite Movement, and Thrane himself left Norway for the U.S. in 1863.
In 1890, Thrane died in Wisconsin. His remains were returned to Norway in 1949, and he is buried in the Æreslunden at Vår Frelser's cemetery in Oslo.
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The true mark of growing up is realizing most Skyrim mods are dogshit and the base vanilla game handles most things better
Except city overhauls, cause oh my god they did not give a fuck about half the "cities"
you're telling me that Falkreath with it's "massive" graveyard being like 30 gravestones wasnt good enough for you? well i never
Not even lying, I walked into Falkreath and immediately went "nope I'm gonna need the mod"
It's genuinely embarrassing that after like five re-releases, none of the cities were overhauled for vanilla, it's not even difficult there are a million in game assets to use
Todd Howard is a punk-ass coward
also a massive liar, and apparentely changed his mind on crunch even though he promised the studio would never use it after the grueling workhours that went into Morrowind.
Fuck, man. I would just like a shittier looking game, that took longer to make and had some weird shit in it again
the city mods that just place a bunch of trees in the cities also suck
but yeah a lot of people take really bad design philosophy into their mods, the amount of quest mods up to vanilla par is shockingly low, 90+% of custom companions are completely unbalanced, convenience/arbitrary inconvenience mods are admittedly ymmv but sometimes assholes will shoehorn in their belief that 'blacksmithing should simulate all the individual parts'... on a helmet mod. bitch i will use the dang console and post a screed about how forcing players to click 10 more times is not a meaningful simulation of blacksmithing!