https://foundsf.org/index.php?title=BURNETTE_G._HASKELL&feed=atom&action=historyBURNETTE G. HASKELL - Revision history2024-03-28T18:29:12ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.1https://foundsf.org/index.php?title=BURNETTE_G._HASKELL&diff=19784&oldid=prevCcarlsson: added new photo2013-03-12T17:34:14Z<p>added new photo</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The San Francisco branch </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the [http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/index.htm International Workingmen's Association] was organized </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a classic cell-form, based on successive hierarchies of groups of nine people, each holding a distinctive membership card. And though it intended to be a clone </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marx</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">group </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">England, it actually took positions more akin to the Black International (anarchist) associated with [http://www</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">knaw.nl/bakunin/ Bakunin]. </del>''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Truth'' is five cents a copy, and dynamite forty cents a pound... When the laboring men understand that heaven, which they are promised hereafter, is a mirage, they will knock at the door of the wealthy robber with a musket in hand, and demand their share of the goods of this life now, editorialized ''Truth'' in late 1883.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Recording </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">notes scribbled </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">margins </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Haskell</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">notebooks </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1880s</ins>.''</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Haskell's handwritten notes in old membership books indicate his plans: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Seize </del>Mint, Armories, Sub-Treasury, Custom House, Government Steamer, Alcatraz, Presidio, newspapers.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>He told historian Ira Cross of manufacturing bombs, hiding suitcases with bombs, using bombs in labor troubles, and of plans to blow up the county Hall of Records so that radicals could seize the choice real estate in the city for themselves. After peaking in popularity in 1886, Haskell's IWA collapsed soon after, partly because the depression of 1883-85 ended, and partly because Haskell and other activists left to form the [http://www.kaweahcommonwealth.com/kaweahcolonyhistory.html Kaweah Cooperative Commonwealth], a utopian experiment, in California's Central Valley (which in turn failed by 1891). Many later leaders cut their teeth in the labor movement of the mid-1880s. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Burnette Haskell was the founder of the local version of Karl Marx's First International. Born June 11, 1857 in the Sierra foothills, he went to several universities, graduating from none, passed the California bar in 1879 but quickly came to detest the law. Haskell's wealthy and ambitious uncle gave him editorial control of his newspaper ''Truth''. Weeks later Haskell offered the paper to the Federated Trades Council as house organ, which they accepted. Haskell continued on as editor, and became a prominent local radical, passing through incarnations as a socialist, communist-anarchist, and finally an Edward Bellamy-inspired cooperativist.</ins></div></td></tr>
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'''Burnette G. Haskell'''<br />
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Burnette Haskell was the founder of the local version of Karl Marxs First International. Born June 11, 1857 in the Sierra foothills, he went to several universities, graduating from none, passed the California bar in 1879 but quickly came to detest the law. Haskells wealthy and ambitious uncle gave him editorial control of his newspaper ''Truth''. Weeks later Haskell offered the paper to the Federated Trades Council as house organ, which they accepted. Haskell continued on as editor, and became a prominent local radical, passing through incarnations as a socialist, communist-anarchist, and finally an Edward Bellamy-inspired cooperativist.<br />
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The San Francisco branch of the International Workingmens Association was organized in a classic cell-form, based on successive hierarchies of groups of nine people, each holding a distinctive membership card. And though it intended to be a clone of Marxs group in England, it actually took positions more akin to the Black International (anarchist) associated with Bakunin. ''Truth'' is five cents a copy, and dynamite forty cents a pound... When the laboring men understand that heaven, which they are promised hereafter, is a mirage, they will knock at the door of the wealthy robber with a musket in hand, and demand their share of the goods of this life now, editorialized ''Truth'' in late 1883.<br />
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Haskell's handwritten notes in old membership books indicate his plans: Seize Mint, Armories, Sub-Treasury, Custom House, Government Steamer, Alcatraz, Presidio, newspapers. He told historian Ira Cross of manufacturing bombs, hiding suitcases with bombs, using bombs in labor troubles, and of plans to blow up the county Hall of Records so that radicals could seize the choice real estate in the city for themselves. After peaking in popularity in 1886, Haskell's IWA collapsed soon after, partly because the depression of 1883-85 ended, and partly because Haskell and other activists left to form the Kaweah Cooperative Commonwealth, a utopian experiment, in California's Central Valley (which in turn failed by 1891). Many later leaders cut their teeth in the labor movement of the mid-1880s. ''--Chris Carlsson''<br />
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