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U.S. History 1877-Present 3: Anarchists in the Guilded Age 11494 Views
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Anarchy is kind of like being left at home without parental supervision for the first time. It's all fun and games til the Guy Fawkes masks come out.
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- 00:04
No doubt industrialization meant a great big
- 00:07
economic boom for the USA but it also meant brutal hours in dangerous [Clocks rapidly ticking forward]
- 00:13
conditions for low pay for men women and for kids so some people out there
- 00:18
started shaking their fist at what they saw is capitalism gone wild and their [Fists shaking at capitalism monkey]
- 00:23
problem wasn't that the capitalists were flashing people on the beach our new
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- 00:29
political and economic model that some people started to take seriously was in
- 00:34
our key or in our kisum and we know we know people hear the word anarchy and
- 00:38
they start thinking about punk rockers randomly breaking things but the [Man in a street by trolley on fire]
- 00:45
anarchists back in the Gilded Age weren't trying to destroy society just
- 00:48
for the fun of it their goal was to level the playing field they wanted to
- 00:52
take power out of the hands of the government which they saw as abuse as
- 00:56
corrupt and in the pockets of big business the anarchist movement in the
- 01:03
United States actually grew out of earlier British labor and poor men's
- 01:06
rights movement and is the greek prefix for no and our key is the suffix for
- 01:14
government so an our key basically means you know you got it no government now it
- 01:19
can all feel smart since we've had our Greek lesson for the day so we're moving [Greek man appears]
- 01:22
on so anarchists obviously didn't give a flip for the whole big government small
- 01:27
government to base instead they said just like how about we just ignore the
- 01:32
government and then the more radical violent ones piped in with better yet [Man wearing V for Vendetta mask]
- 01:36
let's destroy the government it's just seriously getting on our nerves well
- 01:41
there were about a million different species of anarchists in the American
- 01:44
wild you know like each has its own flavor of Anarchy so it's really hard to [Ice cream flavors appear]
- 01:48
pin down one central anarchist philosophy which makes a lot of sense in
- 01:51
spec well anarchist some anarchists also wanted to flat out get rid of the whole
- 01:56
employer-employee thing when some anarchists thought we should all just
- 02:00
treat the industrial revolution like an embarrassing mistake and go back to
- 02:04
local production by family businesses and skilled craftsmen many other in [Man purchasing groceries]
- 02:08
Arcis even thought we should have abolished money
- 02:11
and either share or barter Goods with our neighbors......... These days Green
- 02:17
anarchists are into the environment anarcho pacifists orange of teeth and
- 02:22
our ghost indica lists are into labor units and then there's a strange breed
- 02:28
called anarcho-capitalists who think the free market should be free of all
- 02:32
government restraint it's an unexpected mix but soon when one has its own on [Blender blending a can of soda]
- 02:37
logic I like a combination KFC Taco Bell [Girl eating a KFC taco]
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