Word: syndicalisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As national attention shifted away from Mississippi and the FBI cut down its force in McComb, a new wave of bombings beatings, and arrests struck the area. There were four bombings last week and right now 16 local Negroes are in jail on charges of criminal syndicalism
Meanwhile legislators have been fully as busy as COFO In preparing for the summer. In addition to a number of bills that have already been passed, a "criminal syndicalism" law was introduced in both houses on May 6.
The bill would prohibit "criminal syndicalism," difined as a doctrine of precept which "advocates, teaches, aids, or abets" the commission of "crime.... violence and force ... as a means of accomplishing a change in agricultural or industral ownership or control . . . . or in affecting any political or social change."
Criminal syndicalism would be punishable by fines of $200 to $1000 or by a jail sentence of one to ten years.
A successful revolution establishes a new community, but a missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. Goodman then lists some revolutions we have missed, or started, but compromised: technocracy, garden city, new deal syndicalism, class struggle, democracy, freedom of speech, liberalism, agrarianism, fraternity, brotherhood of races, pacifism, enlightenment, popular...