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8 Reddit comments about Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies):

u/RedAsFolk · 32 pointsr/news

Yeah, there is a lot of great information about this. WEB DuBois' Black Reconstruction in America, Rosa Luxemburg's The Mass Strike, Eugene Deb's Revolutionary Unionism, Eleanor Marx's The Working-Class Movement in America, Hal Draper's Marxism and the Trade Union, The Great Coal Strike of 1978, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression.

I'm particularly fond of Hammer and Hoe as an Alabamian Communist, myself. It has one of the greatest lines in labor history, in my opinion, recorded in it. Lemon Johnson, a black trade unionist in the Sharecroppers Union lead by the Communist Party, was asked how they were so successful in winning some of their demands. Lemon “pulled out a dog-eared copy of V.I. Lenin’s What Is to Be Done and a box of shotgun shells” and said “Theory and practice.”

u/expansefan2301 · 9 pointsr/ChapoTrapHouse
u/corvibae · 7 pointsr/Socialism_101

DSA member here. There are quite a few valid criticisms of the DSA, and more than a few things that really piss me off about the leadership. If you'd like to talk about it with me privately, feel free to shoot me a PM. Don't get me wrong, the DSA at its core is a decent organization, but there are problems that desperately need attending to for it to become the socialist organization the nation needs right now.

As for what I would suggest, this book which is kind of long and for that I apologize is Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression which is a really fantastic book about organizing in the deep south at the height of Jim Crow. There doesn't appear to be an audiobook circulating around on the internet as of yet, but I'm sure someone will make one eventually. Best of luck, comrade!

u/Memphis_Marxist · 3 pointsr/communism

It was also helped in no small part by American Communists. This great book details that very topic. NPR interviewed the scholar who wrote the book last month.

u/SpinningHead · 2 pointsr/politics

This is an interesting read on just that subject http://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Hoe-Communists-Depression-Morrison/dp/0807842885

Edit: Why all the downvotes on this book? Am I missing something?

u/beenthereallnight · 1 pointr/socialism

thought the thread might be about this book based on the heading https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Hoe-Communists-Depression-Morrison/dp/0807842885