My name is Jason Lober, I am a student in LaGuardia Community College and this blog is dedicated specifically to my "Violence in America: Art and Culture" class. In this week's class we read about The Great Railroad Riots of 1877, which caused massive amounts of crime, poverty, and even murder. like my professor said in class, "This was the Greatest Depression in America, even before the Great Depression of the 1920's" (Prof. Rodgers-Cooper). The author also wrote about Communism within the context of the Riots.
The author of The Great Railroad Riots of 1877, wrote about Communism in a manner that showed his dislike and disagreement with the subject. He first talks about how communism preaches equality for all men without class distinctions; same wages no matter your employment and same healthcare for all, no man should have any more or less then their fellow comrades. The author disagrees with this saying that class distinctions are what keep a society moving forward and labels it as the right way living. he then goes on to bring up and then challenge everything in which Communism stands for.
In my opinion, from all that he has stated about Communism and its morals, I agree for the most part with what communism stands for. Although when it first came into existence it was brutally forced upon citizens whose governments wanted to bring Communism about, making it extremely undesirable and threatening if anything. This brought up a couple of questions from me, why is it that those who are not associated with Communism, bash and ridicule its ideas? Why not take into account some of the ideas in which Communism brings without forcing it upon society? Why must the people who are granted freedom and democracy be so hard-headed and set in their ways without even considering another's idea, even if it might prove to help , if not better their own society?
Thank you for reading and stay tuned for more on "Violence in America: Art and Culture".
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