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Allan Pinkerton - The Knights of Capitalism
🕑 Added 2020-01-03 18:01:01 +0000 UTCWe're kicking off the new year by wrapping up our Policing series. Since we've spent the series discussing London's move from citizen policing to state-funded and state-operated law enforcement, let's talk about what happens when you get money into the mix. And there's no private police force more famous than the scourge of union workers and labor strikes, the Pinkerton Agency, the Knights of Capitalism.
But would you be surprised to learn that their founder was a progressive and an abolitionist, forced out the UK after his own activist work. How did a man like Allan Pinkerton found an organization that stood in direct contrast to his own history?
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Calvin McClory
7:00. That's some very clear socialist language. I hope at some point in the future you get an Austrian historian to be a guest writer. If you cater exclusively to a left-wing and center audience, you'll only a small view of the world.
Victor Heinsberg
Your right my dude though they aren’t trotskyites or close to them most likely Socialists or Democratic socialists the same thing but one is a bit more market friendly, though pure capitalism is impossible as it is anarchies capitalism in that case.
Victor Heinsberg
That’s why we have trade unions which rig elections and our days sadly provide less and less for the actual worker
Manek Rudolph
dude ... uncalled for
Victor Heinsberg
Capitalism with humane face is the way to go and capitalism is a thousand times better than communism. Climate change is a thing but we should just limit some things as climates always change the plastic is a problem though
Martin Verran
And then, either way, we are DOOOOOMED...
Spencer Jones
A fantastic episode that showed the strange beginnings and organization of the Pinkertons and about how the organization first began and how and why Allan Pinkerton started the whole thing. A very good look at how you can see that having a private police force that works for the highest bidder is not exactly the greatest idea for anyone except for the richest of the rich and will be used to suppress worker rights and power.
Rolf Mützelburg
Garbage episode. It barely gave any information about the Pinkertons themselves, just a brief bio about thier founder and some pinko undertones. The title alone looks like the kind of tabloid worker's journal shit Vox would put out. "Knights of capitalism"? What Bolshavik Bullshit are you huffing to think union busting is capitalism? I suppose you And the rest of Trotsky Triad think Manopoly; (the literal subversion of Capitalist principles) is also capitalism! PMCs fight for capitalism. Pinkertons fought criminals, and by association got dragged into fighting communists as well, because the decentralized government couldn't handle the job at the time.
Edmund F Schramko
If cities, e.g., Seattle, can't (wont?) provide public safety while prohibiting citizens from defending themselves, then perhaps we need another Pinkerton equivalent.
Zakanuva
...and the Communists destroy the planet in the name of the Proletariat.
Martin Verran
The Greed of the Capitalists is destroying our world in the name of profit.
