British General Charles Cornwallis and mortally wounded Continental Army (American) general Johann de Kalb after the Battle of Camden, 1780 AD

Last year’s #holiday #giftbox exhibited the fruits of hard working Dakotans: #WildWest roasted #pumpkinseeds, #coffee, #bison #whitechocolate, #GermanAmerican #pfeffernusse #cookies, & an arty #bookmark celebrating the beautiful #badlands.

The #PrideofDakota region leads in #honey & #sunflower seed production.

Lehr und Wehr Verein ("Educational and Defense Society") was a socialist military organization founded in 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. The group had been formed to counter the armed private armies of companies in Chicago.
-The Internet

Never heard of them before. As a response to worker self-organization the state made it so that all militias had to register with the state and wouldn’t you know the state made it illegal for revolutionary worker militias to exist above the board. In response, Lehr und Wehr Verein made a 2A legal appeal.

In a strange twist we now see 2A absolutists carving space for themselves but in doing so also space for armed radicals, socialists, anarchists, communists, and leftists broadly to re-emerge.

#LehrUndWehrVerein #History #Labor #Anarchist #Socialist #CommunityDefense #ArmedDefense #MatthewSiegfried #RevolutionsNewsstand #GermanAmerican

@Npars01

No, #bothsidesism, is the way to normalize #fascist, and maybe even ideas of #totalitarianism 4 mainstream thinking.
In 1949-1966, the great #GermanAmerican #historian #HannahArendt wrote in her book, The Origins of Totalitarianism:

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the #masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.”

#histodon
@tzimmer_history