These real life Texas cowboys were socialists | The Marc Steiner Show

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Symbols of the Old West are almost unquestionably associated with the right wing in this day-in-age. Yet the real history of the Wild West is more complicated. Take the 19th century Fence Cutting Wars in Texas, a state-wide, interracial armed movement against the encroachments of big ranchers backed up by the Texas Rangers in instating a new regime of private property on the territory. David Griscom, host of the Left Reckoning podcast, joins The Marc Steiner Show for a discussion on this little-known but deeply influential episode in Texan and US socialist history.
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9 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 30

@fredganoe9791 Год назад

Fascinating story. Thanks to both of you.

@karennielsen9248 Год назад

Great story! I had no idea. Of course we never were taught any of that.

@phaedrussmith1949 Год назад

You spelled "indoctrinated" wrong.

@dondevine3833 Год назад

Great stuff!!! And yes. Would that EVER make a good movie!!! Better than another Spider-Man reboot. 🤨

@huwpatt3817 Год назад

Has to be done... a good series

@greglpc-s6178 Год назад

The film Open Range, with Kevin Costner; touched on this desire for Free Ranges and land being boxed in.

@HoosierTex74 Год назад

For a history of agrarian radicalism in Texas check out the book Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas. History of German 48ers, Greenback Labor Party, Farmers' Alliance, Knights of Labor, Populist movement, Texas Socialist Party, Mexican revolutionaries, and the Nonpartisan League in Texas.

@熊唯嘉 Год назад

I remember reading a Donald Duck comic about a young Scrooge McDuck tearing down barbed wires when he was still a cowboy in the American Midwest, when I was in middle school back in China (where I grew up).

@side1981 Год назад

Got to say there are some fun alternate history thought experiments about what if Karl Marx had been allowed to migrate to Texas like he wanted.

@StoutProper Год назад

The Texan revolution and secession from the union to became the independent socialist republic of Texas, with a defence pact with Cuba and an oil cartel with Venezuela

@SamuelClemente7718 Год назад

@@StoutProperwith Rafael Cruz as President

@cyclonasaurusrex1525 Год назад

Enclosure of the commons

@adphi8219 3 месяца назад

Beautiful story and great work. Being from Texas there is a simplistic ignorance towards the past or materialism, so people don't undersand socialism being the call to give power back to the people. Their goals arent realized to reformed let alone transformed society. I have a friend who is homeless, a 60 year old black man, who was told he couldn't stay on his friends porch or he would be arrested for "tresspassing". "Loitering" People used to be outlaws but they all passed and we're picking up the pieces. We used to unite against fascism, glad your helping that

@mahlataban686 Год назад

❤

@DC-wg1cr Год назад

Bro these texas fat cats' grandkids are doing the same thing here in idaho now

@LightlyEarthy Год назад

songs: Don't fence me in, Git along little doggie...

@jamesdavis4825 Год назад

"Cattle" is derived from "chattel," the French term for movable property that was used to describe African slaves and women in the 1800's. It's worth considering, beyond the relations of capital, how reducing living beings to "livestock" has coincided with the destruction of almost six football fields of prairie in the United States every hour and is now responsible for 80% of deforestation. In fact, grazing cows on native lands was a purposeful strategy of cultural genocide in Northern California (in addition to indigenous people being directly enslaved on ranches). We should recognize all living beings as locked in the same struggle as humans against the ownership class

@nickjohnson3619 10 месяцев назад

Funny how much better everything is without layers of middle managment

@saltleygates Год назад

Heavens Gate translated to Texas

@carpediem44 Год назад

Calling John Sayles!

@StoutProper Год назад

The Texan revolution and secession from the union to became the independent socialist republic of Texas, with a defence pact with Cuba and an oil cartel with Venezuela