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ISM is a narrative history of ideas and revolution—socialism, anarchism, fascism, and beyond. Each season follows a political ideology through the moments when it collides with power, shaping cities, movements, and lives.Currently on Season One: The Origins of Socialism:…
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Chicago 1886: Anarchism on Trial (S2E6) (opens the original)
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In the summer of 1886, eight anarchists went on trial for a murder the state could not prove they had committed. Unable to identify who threw the bomb at Haymarket , prosecutors built their case around a broader theory of conspiracy , arguing that years of revolutionary speeches, newspaper articles, and political organizing had created the conditions for violence. But as the trial moved toward its conclusion, the defendants turned the courtroom into a political platform. August Spies , Albert Pa
Chicago 1886: The Haymarket Affair (S2E5) (opens the original)
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History never answered who threw the Haymarket bomb. But it forever changed what Americans believed about labor, radicalism, and political dissent. As tens of thousands of Chicago workers walked off the job in May 1886 , hopes for peaceful reform collided with years of mounting class conflict. Following a deadly police shooting at the McCormick Reaper Works , August Spies issued a desperate call to workers, a rally was organized in Haymarket Square , and a single bomb transformed one of the larg
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