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Simply an allusion to how the mafia was/is used in Italy? Website: http://filmint.nu/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FilmInt Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/FilmInt 27 okt 2014 kl. 17:19 skrev CallMe Ishmael via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu>: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Wondering if anyone can help me with this passage from the first chapter of > Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest" (1929): > > "The strike lasted eight months. Both sides bled plenty. The wobblies had > to do their own bleeding. Old Elihu hired gunmen, strike-breakers, national > guardsmen and even parts of the regular army, to do his. When the last > skull had been cracked, the last rib kicked in, organized labor in > Personville was a used firecracker. > > But, said Bill Quint, Old Elihu didn’t know his Italian history. He won the > strike, but he lost his hold on the city and the state. To beat the miners > he had to let his hired thugs run wild. When the fight was over he couldn’t > get rid of them. He had given his city to them and he wasn’t strong enough > to take it away from them. Personville looked good to them and they took it > over. They had won his strike for him and they took the city for their > spoils." > > What's that about Italian history? What's he referring to? > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/daniel.lindvall%40filmint.nu _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
