april 19th century american labor activist poet leading prominent left wing intellectual 1880s best remembered lover mentor early feminist prolific writer wrote number key texts contributed publications including liberty journal alarm journal following arrest edited alarm traditionally portrayed theoretical recently recast scholarship rebel violence light involvement affair life disposition character mind philosophical mental capacity keen broad friends passing away descendant prominent family grandfather american revolutionary hopes bringing end slavery volunteered fight union_army american_civil_war served adjutant later captain seeing combat trade active american labor movement aftermath war served secretary ran lieutenant governor massachusetts labor reform ticket abolitionist widely known period traveling country secretary congressional committee appointed depression labor advocate direct action trade later years moving spirit american group worked sentence attempted assassination committed suicide suffering severe depression time cause death reported press heart relationship met seven years elder lived life rich experience forged friendship profound influence political development evolved opposite direction started orthodox increasingly involved radical labor movement ultimately called movement relationship ended years intense involvement leaving planned collaborative project lengthy social philosophical novel ultimately unpublished involvement closely associated worked alongside affair chicago essay wrote afternoon august spies sent word bring arms order respected noted man order self determined acted responsibility preferring prepared resistance onslaught quietly imitate spiritual lamb led slaughter asserted defendants initially unaware bomb identity known believed account bomb mentioned trial today unknown public urged refuse plotted rescue attacking explosives according assisted suicide defendants smuggling prison cell dynamite cap concealed cigar subsequently lit blowing half face leaving lingering hours pain dying thought rent interest profit triple heads monster modern civilization war political philosophy fusion economics form economics inspired boston radical labor organization similar chicago time ideas variously described communist influenced strongly tendency developed theory unions active later promoted anti political strategies frustration labor reform caused embrace workers came believe revolution inevitably involve violent struggle working class employing class convinced necessity violence enact social change volunteered fight american civil war hoping bring end slavery praised fusion economics radical labor activism creative described significant boston group argued labor problem result intervention state creating particular reference land money advocated destruction land monopoly saw government granted monopoly land titles allow free access land making extraction rent impossible similarly mutual banks set issue end state monopoly ability banks charge interest anarchy labor capital merged capital dependent labor owned find produce enjoy nightmare banished find operation nature remained exploited find production offered greater exchange accepted position ease labor exchange isolated stores clerk longer horizon bounded ribbon counter scope display talents direction farmer free care meet interest enforced taxation family growing rendered secure common title mutual inter dependence seeking insurance find anarchy release useless labor crowned peace selected articles anarchy published alarm parsons philosophy scientific basis eighteen christian centuries evolution gospel anarchy syndicated liberty status published rights labor later heavily liberty
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