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I believe he's referring to the many occasions on which a leading general overthrew the Emperor he had been fighting on behalf of. Very glad to hear you're reading "Red Harvest," IMO it's so useful in thinking about parallel situations involving capitalists/imperialist states/etc. relying upon relatively subordinate allies with interests of their own.. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:19 PM, CallMe Ishmael via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** 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/acpollack2%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ 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
