#there were probably *some* socialists involved -- especially with the mortgage thing -- but American midwestern socialism is weird

[mourning-again-in-america]

Sorry, milk strikes?

some dairy farmers, in order to preserve the price of their goods, would go out on the roads and, when finding a milk truck, force it to pull over and then destroy all the milk, often pouring it out onto the road; it gained some notoriety as being supposedly a Communist plot by the Soviets to bring about the proletarian revolution