Tweet from Joshua Collins, candidate for Congress in Washington's 10th District.

[George II]

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[vsrazdem]

1. Thanks for the post.

@DanetteSPorter1
Replying to
@Joshua4Congress

@RoseCaucus
and
@SenSanders
Abolitionists were called Socialist. Labor activists were called Socialist. Suffragettes were called Socialists. Anti-War marchers and Hippies were called Socialist. In history, all those people were on the right side.
Not such a scary thing to identify as. ❤

[George II]

2. The concept of socialism was developed years after the emancipation proclamation....

I seriously doubt that Suffragettes were called socialists. The rest? Meh.

[vsrazdem]

3. The term socialism was definitely around during the Abolition.

The term socialism was created by Henri de Saint-Simon, one of the founders of what would later be labelled utopian socialism.

Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]; 17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), was a French political and economic theorist and businessman whose thought played a substantial role in influencing politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science.

[George II]

5. I didn't say the term, I said the concept.

[vsrazdem]

4. Apparently you have never watched any movie about Sufragettes. They were jailed,

force fed, and treated totally inhumanely, so definitely YES they were called much worse than socialists.

Maybe check out the movie iron jawed angels. It will enlighten you.

[George II]

6. I know exactly what happened to the Sufragettes, I've been to the Women's Rights National....

Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY. They may have been called much worse than socialists, but they were never called socialists.

[vsrazdem]

7. That's nice. Me too. I lived 45 minutes away from Seneca Falls, born and raised in upstate

New York, until I moved at age 25, and by the way, I don't think you are old enough to know what they were called back then.

I should correct that to say born on an Air Force base in Texas, and parents moved back to NY when I was 3 months.