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Sep 20, 2026
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Let us consider some of the most important anarchist acts within the last two decades.
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Strange as it may seem, one of the most significant deeds of political violence occurred here in America in connection with the Homestead Strike of 1892.
speaker_1NARRATOR
During that memorable time, the Carnegie Steel Company organized a conspiracy to crush the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Henry Clay Frick, then chairman of the company, was entrusted with that democratic task.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Let us consider some of the most important anarchist acts within the last two decades.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Strange as it may seem, one of the most significant deeds of political violence occurred here in America in connection with the Homestead Strike of 1892.
speaker_4NARRATOR
During that memorable time, the Carnegie Steel Company organized a conspiracy to crush the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steelworkers.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Henry Clay Frick, then chairman of the company, was entrusted with that democratic task.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Let us consider some of the most important anarchist acts within the last two decades.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Strange as it may seem, one of the most significant deeds of political violence occurred here in America in connection with the Homestead Strike of eighteen ninety-two.
speaker_4NARRATOR
During that memorable time, the Carnegie Steel Company organized a conspiracy to crush the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Henry Clay Frick, then chairman of the company, was entrusted with that democratic task.
BarksHOST
This episode is about queer anarchism, a tradition that has existed under various names for well over a century and that both mainstream queer politics and the mostly white, mostly male anarchist canon have had a habit of forgetting was ever there, about where queer theory and anarchist theory genuinely meet, and about where, honestly, they still pull apart.
BarksHOST
Start with Alexander Berkman in 1892, twenty-two years old, walking into the office of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Strike and shooting him in what anarchists of the time called propaganda of the deed.
BarksHOST
Frick survived.
BarksHOST
Berkman was sentenced to fourteen years in a Pennsylvania prison, and it was there, not in a lecture hall, that one of the most significant American texts on homosexuality before the twentieth century's midpoint got written.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Incidentally, Maria Louise subsequently became a Mahatma.
speaker_3NARRATOR
During the Free Silver campaign, ex-Burgess McCluckey, one of the most genuine personalities in the Homestead Strike, visited New York in an endeavor to enthuse the local radicals for Free Silver.
speaker_3NARRATOR
He also attempted to interest Emma Goldman, but with no greater success than Mahatma Maria Louise of Parkhurst Lexow fame.
speaker_3NARRATOR
In 1894, the struggle of the anarchists in France reached its highest expression.
2 HRS 1 MIN LATER
speaker_3NARRATOR
A close examination of the circumstances bearing upon this question will further clarify my position.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Let us consider some of the most important anarchist acts within the last two decades.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Strange as it may seem, one of the most significant deeds of political violence occurred here in America in connection with the Homestead Strike of 1892.
speaker_3NARRATOR
During that memorable time, the Carnegie Steel Company organized a conspiracy to crush the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Let us consider some of the most important anarchist acts within the last two decades.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Strange as it may seem, one of the most significant deeds of political violence occurred here in America in connection with the Homestead Strike of 1892.
speaker_0NARRATOR
During that memorable time, the Carnegie Steel Company organized a conspiracy to crush the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Henry Clay Frick, then chairman of the company, was entrusted with that democratic task.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
I'm Robert Smith, and this is Business History, Part Deux, a show about the history of business.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
Today on the show, the second part of our two-part series on the Homestead Strike and the fight over work in America.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
It's going to be violent.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
And waiting in the wings are the anarchists.
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Jacob GoldsteinHOST
The National Guard has just marched into Homestead, and what's happening in Homestead is still... a global story, the biggest story in America.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
Give us the lead story on page one of the New York Sun on July 13.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
Overawed by military, homestead strikers face-to-face with the state's armed force.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
I was looking at this in the reproduction of the front page, and I noticed that there's a second story on the front page of that paper that day about the federal government sending in troops to this violent strike at a mine in Idaho.
Jon StewartHOST
The steel strike in particular, the Pinkerton fellows went in, didn't they, the 300 Pinkerton guys? Yes.
Philip DrayGUEST
The Homestead Strike of 1892.
Philip DrayGUEST
The
Jon StewartHOST
Homestead Strike.
Philip DrayGUEST
Very violent.
Philip DrayGUEST
And, of course, what would happen usually, as you can imagine, the nation would be outraged at the violence.
Ian MastersHOST
Yeah.
Ian MastersHOST
Frick was almost killed by a young anarchist, Alexander Berkman, during the Homestead Strike.
Ian MastersHOST
Carnegie went on to say that extreme cases of wealth would inevitably breed social distrust.
Ian MastersHOST
in an 1889 essay.
Kim Phillips-FeinGUEST
And on the other hand, you know, Carnegie was.
Kim Phillips-FeinGUEST
vicious towards the union at his plants.
Kim Phillips-FeinGUEST
The Homestead strike, which is actually really a lockout, Homestead lockout, the company locks out the workers trying to force them to accept lower wages and break the union and then brings in, tries to bring in hundreds of strike breakers, Pinkertons.
Kim Phillips-FeinGUEST
And that's kind of the conflict, the context for the assassination attempt on Frick's life.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Incidentally, Maria Louise subsequently became a Mahatma.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
During the Free Silver campaign, ex-Burgess McCluckey, one of the most genuine personalities in the Homestead Strike, visited New York in an endeavor to enthuse the local radicals for Free Silver.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
He also attempted to interest Emma Goldman, but with no greater success than Mahatma Maria Louise of Parkhurst Lexow fame.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
In 1894, the struggle of the anarchists in France reached its highest expression.
2 HRS 2 MINS LATER
ExpatriateNARRATOR
A close examination of the circumstances bearing upon this question will further clarify my position.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Let us consider some of the most important anarchist acts within the last two decades.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Strange as it may seem, one of the most significant deeds of political violence occurred here in America in connection with the Homestead Strike of 1892.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
During that memorable time, the Carnegie Steel Company organized a conspiracy to crush the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
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