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No doubt industrialization meant a great big

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economic boom for the USA but it also meant brutal hours in dangerous [Clocks rapidly ticking forward]

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conditions for low pay for men women and for kids so some people out there

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started shaking their fist at what they saw is capitalism gone wild and their [Fists shaking at capitalism monkey]

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problem wasn't that the capitalists were flashing people on the beach our new

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political and economic model that some people started to take seriously was in

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our key or in our kisum and we know we know people hear the word anarchy and

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they start thinking about punk rockers randomly breaking things but the [Man in a street by trolley on fire]

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anarchists back in the Gilded Age weren't trying to destroy society just

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for the fun of it their goal was to level the playing field they wanted to

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take power out of the hands of the government which they saw as abuse as

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corrupt and in the pockets of big business the anarchist movement in the

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United States actually grew out of earlier British labor and poor men's

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rights movement and is the greek prefix for no and our key is the suffix for

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government so an our key basically means you know you got it no government now it

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can all feel smart since we've had our Greek lesson for the day so we're moving [Greek man appears]

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on so anarchists obviously didn't give a flip for the whole big government small

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government to base instead they said just like how about we just ignore the

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government and then the more radical violent ones piped in with better yet [Man wearing V for Vendetta mask]

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let's destroy the government it's just seriously getting on our nerves well

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there were about a million different species of anarchists in the American

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wild you know like each has its own flavor of Anarchy so it's really hard to [Ice cream flavors appear]

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pin down one central anarchist philosophy which makes a lot of sense in

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spec well anarchist some anarchists also wanted to flat out get rid of the whole

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employer-employee thing when some anarchists thought we should all just

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treat the industrial revolution like an embarrassing mistake and go back to

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local production by family businesses and skilled craftsmen many other in [Man purchasing groceries]

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Arcis even thought we should have abolished money

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and either share or barter Goods with our neighbors......... These days Green

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anarchists are into the environment anarcho pacifists orange of teeth and

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our ghost indica lists are into labor units and then there's a strange breed

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called anarcho-capitalists who think the free market should be free of all

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government restraint it's an unexpected mix but soon when one has its own on [Blender blending a can of soda]

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logic I like a combination KFC Taco Bell [Girl eating a KFC taco]

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