#la follette

[haggishlyhagging]

The reason why marriage is "an incomparable protection to society" lies in the fact that the continuance of the power of the exploiting State depends upon the relative helplessness of its exploited subjects; and nothing renders the subject more helpless against the dominance of the State than marriage. For monopoly, under the protection of the State, has rendered the support of a family extremely difficult, by closing free access of labour to natural resources and thus enabling the constant maintenance of a labour-surplus. Where there is little or no land not legally occupied, access to the soil is impossible save on terms that render it, if not downright prohibitive, at least unprofitable. The breadwinner who has neither land nor capital is thus forced to take his chance in a labour-market overcrowded by applicants for work who are in exactly his position: they are shut out from opportunity to work for themselves, and obliged to accept such employment as they can get at a wage determined not by their capacity to produce, but by the number of their competitors. Not only is the wage-earner thus obliged to content himself with a small share of what his labour produces; he is forced to pay out of that share further tribute to monopoly in most of the things he buys. . . .

Such disadvantages tend not only to keep wages near the subsistence-level, but to keep opinions orthodox—or if not orthodox, unexpressed. For the wage-earner gets his living on sufferance: while he continues to please his employer he may earn a living, however inadequate, for himself and family; but if he show signs of discontent with the established order, by which his employer benefits or thinks he benefits, he is likely to find himself supplanted by some other worker whose need makes him more willing to conform, in appearance at least. . . . [T]he average wage-earner with a family to support will be under much greater pressure to dissemble than will the worker who has no family; for where the single worker risks privation for himself alone, the married worker takes this risk for his family as well. Nor does economic pressure operate only towards the appearance of conformity; for the person who has children to read and educate will be strongly impelled towards conservatism by his situation. If he can get along at all under the present order, the mere vis inertiae will incline him to fear for the sake of his family the economic dislocation attendant upon any revolutionary change, and to choose rather to keep the ills he has. . . .

Thus the economic conditions brought about by the State operate to make marriage the State's strongest bulwark; and those who believe that the preservation of the State, or of a particular form of it, is a sacred duty—their number among its victims is legion—are quite logical in taking alarm at the increasing unwillingness of men and women to marry, or if they do marry, to have children. They are logical not only because marriage and children make for endurance of established abuses, but because . . . it is important for the State to have as many subjects as possible, to keep up a labour-surplus at home and to fight for the interests of its privileged class abroad; that is, so long as industry is able to meet the exactions of monopoly and still pay interest and wages. . . .

-Suzanne La Follette, ‘Concerning Women’ in Alice S. Rossi, The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

[sublecturas]

“Winter of the World”, de Ken Follet

[thelifeasfiction]

My top 10 books ever

[deadpresidents]

Any third-party candidate in a post 1900 presidential contest who could have made a decent or average, if unspectacular, President of the USA?

Former President Theodore Roosevelt was a third-party candidate in 1912 against incumbent Republican President Taft and Democratic nominee (and eventual winner) Woodrow Wilson, so I think he's an obvious pick. Other than that, most of the major third-party candidates wouldn't have been great choices because they were racist protest nominees like Strom Thurmond or George Wallace. Ross Perot doesn't deserve to be compared with Thurmond or Wallace, but I don't think he would have been any good as President. Maybe Robert M. La Follette Sr., who did fairly well as a third-party challenger to President Coolidge and Democratic nominee John W. Davis in 1924?

[dailydoseofoldshit]

Sourced from the 29 October 1924 issue of The Vilas County News; page 10; accessed via Chronicling America.

[1900scartoons]

In the Swim

August 10, 1908

Bob La Follette beckons Cummins of Iowa and Bristow of Kansas to the U.S. Senate Radical Pool. Senatorial Courtesy covers her eyes as the men prepare to undress for the swim.

The caption reads 'Bob La Follette (Already In the Pool) - Come On In, Boys the Water's Fine.'

On August 6, the New York Times reported that presumed winners Cummins and Bristow would join forces with radical La Follette. A struggle between conservatives and radicals was predicted for the Senate of the 61st Congress.

See Also: Robert La Follette

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/5850/rec/2041

[auxryn]

In the early 1900's Wisconsin imported social democracy from Germany and filed the serial numbers off:

[davidblaska]

Failure ain't cheap

But progressives want to double down on more of the same! One might think that a poolside party atop the almost brand new, aptly named Lux apartment high rise on a warm evening in June might — as the guilt-ridden do gooders like to say — “build community.” Instead, 12 young people ranging in age from 14 to 23 were injured after party goers started shooting. Just one of three shootings over the…

[elgallinero]

Practice English

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[m-andrade-87]

LA ARMADURA DE LA LUZ (KEN FOLLETT)

La revolución está en el aire: 1792. Un gobierno despótico está decidido a convertir Inglaterra en un poderoso imperio comercial. Y, desde el otro lado del mar, suenan tambores de guerra mientras Napoleón Bonaparte comienza su ascenso al poder y prepara un violento plan para convertirse en emperador del mundo. Kingsbridge se asoma al abismo: los avances industriales se imponen de manera…

[haggishlyhagging]

When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order, and imposing their belief, by force if necessary, on those whom circumstances have placed in their power. There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained. . . .

She [woman] was humble and subservient, as a matter of fact, for an incredibly long time; so long that there exists a general suspicion even at the present day that there is something in her nature which makes her want to be subject to man and to live as it were at second hand. This thought would be even more alarming than it is, perhaps, if it were not true that men themselves have stood for a good deal of subjection during the world's known history. Chattel slavery and serfdom were abolished from the civilized world only at about the time that the subjection of women began to be modified; and men still endure, not only with resignation but with positive cheerfulness, a high degree of industrial and political slavery. The man who is entirely dependent for his livelihood upon the will of an employer is an industrial slave, and the man who may be drafted into an army and made to fight and perhaps die for a cause in which he can have no possible interest is the slave of the State. . . . What the slavery of men, as of women, implies is the existence of an economic and social order that is inimical to their interests as human beings; and it implies nothing more than this.

-Suzanne La Follette, ‘Concerning Women’ in Alice S. Rossi, The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

[sublecturas]

"El envío", de Sebastián Fitzek y "Noche sobre las aguas", de Ken Follett en la #LíneaB

[mourning-again-in-america]

I love the state level progressives too much. Such a shame that being an isolationist in public office during the World Wars was considered worse than being a flagrant adulterer by many.

[giovithunder]

Recensione di "La caduta dei giganti" di Ken Follett

“Credo che fosse convinta che era meglio morire piuttosto che rinunciare alla speranza di un’esistenza migliore”. L’ho incominciato e interrotto svariate volte, ma alla fine l’ho finito ed è stata una lettura incredibile. La caduta dei giganti, primo volume della The Century Trilogy, è un romanzo storico di Ken Follett che si sviluppa a partire dal 1911 e si conclude nel 1924, attraversando gli…

[iannozzigiuseppe]

La cruna dell'ago - Ken Follett - Traduttore: Riccardo Calzeroni, Teresa Albanese - Mondadori

La cruna dell’ago – Ken Follett – Traduttore: Riccardo Calzeroni, Teresa Albanese – Mondadori

La cruna dell’ago – Ken Follett – Traduttore: Riccardo Calzeroni, Teresa Albanese – Oscar Absolute, Mondadori Il romanzo che quarant’anni fa ha ridisegnato il thriller e rivelato al mondo il talento di Ken Follett. Con un contributo inedito dell’autore. “C’è un aspetto del libro particolarmente originale: la protagonista è una donna, Lucy Rose. Oggi capita spesso, ma all’epoca era inaudito… la…

[toddstool]

ANA MENDIETA

THE WOMAN THAT CREATED EARTH BODY WAS POSSIBLY MURDERED??? BY HER PIECE OF SHIT HUSBAND??????????? OF ONLY EIGHT MONTHS AT THE TIME???

I believe it too; smells like jealousy. I can't believe I didn't know this. I only came across her work because of tumblr but I found it so riveting and striking, it really stayed with me. she worked in film, photography, sculptures/installation art, print. here's some of her other art (tw on the last one: untitled (rape scene))

sidenote I only just found this out because of @/subwayhands, Hannah La Follette (brilliant photographer), on Instagram posting about his recent death (january 24, 2024) thank u to her for informing me.

rest in peace Ana Mendieta