Renewable Revolution

FWIW, my reading of history agrees. Few people know and NONE are told we sent troops to Russia in 1919. I once did a documentary of Armand Hammer's art collection,  which he amassed during that time. The Russian government in the early 20s was being economically strangled (sound familiar?) and had no access to forex. Supposedly (this is what the curator told me) Hammer brought in shipments of food and medicine to Russia and took artwork as payment. Which was the start of a collection to which he added for the rest of his life.

A lot of nineteenth-century French art, with significant examples of different schools represented.  Plenty of portraiture and landscape. There are some surprises as well: Gustave Moreau’s  King David and evocative Salomé Dancing before Herod are really first rate and are two of the artist’s most renowned works, while masters like Rembrandt, van Gogh, degas, renoir, Durer,  Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Gilbert Stuart are also in the collection.

Sorry, took a trip down memory lane there.

The point of the reply was to affirm the historical antipathy that TPTB have had for ANY sort of collective action. And that screaming crimson line shrieks out from the pages of labor history, traced from Homestead to Haymarket to Ludlow to Blair Mountain. And it continues today, but just like colonial exploitation, it shows up in more civilized drag, for appearances' sake.