Bythedeed's review
Sacco and Vanzetti
by Paul Avrich
Bythedeed's review
Sacco and Vanzetti by Paul Avrich
Bythedeed's review
rating:
recommended for: anarchists, labor radicals, illegalists
** spoiler alert **
The few times growing up I heard about Sacco and Vanzetti, they were always described as a poor fish peddler and shoe smith who were victims of xenophobia and classism; innocent Italian immigrant who would have never dreamed of doing anything wrong. Most writing on them and people who've studied the two anarchist continue to portray them as such victims. Avrich blows away this absurd and insulting label, exposing their anarchist convictions and detailing their participation in a series of bombings before their arrests and a trip to Mexico with about five dozen other Galleanists during World War One to dodge conscription and train for the revolution that they thought was going to sweep across Europe from Russia and into North America.
Beautifully researched and written. It's interesting to read this and then some of Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti which picks up in jail where The Anarchist Background stops off and where Sacco and Vanzetti begin to portray themselves very differently in...more
Beautifully researched and written. It's interesting to read this and then some of Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti which picks up in jail where The Anarchist Background stops off and where Sacco and Vanzetti begin to portray themselves very differently in...more
