[9thLife]

Twain, Keller, socialists? Historical revisionism or misinterpretation?

[Popman]

Twain took a more pessimistic, ironic approach, yet he thoroughly opposed religious dogma, slavery, and imperialism. “I am always on the side of the revolutionists,” he wrote, “because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.”

Interesting position Twain took

I wonder what he would think of today's manufactured phoney oppressors and fake intolerable conditions pushed by the progressives...

[CrazyIvan]

Communism is idiocy. They want to divide up the property. Suppose they did it — it requires brains to keep money as well as make it. In a precious little while the money would be back in the former owner’s hands and the communist would be poor again.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

[miss marmelstein]

Helen Keller’s life was very curtailed; not only by her disabilities but by her family and Anne Sullivan. She was not allowed to marry although she was secretly engaged to a young man. She was very much affected by John Macy’s radicalism (Anne’s husband). She was tremendously naïve.

[minnesota_bound]

Back in her day you were pretty much left to fend for yourself. I understand her falling for socialist causes.

[windcliff]

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