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The children yearn for the mines.

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Mining in particular was the beginning of a lot of unionization movements. People tend to think of hisroiv mining right leaning but they were pretty hard left and pushed hard to worker rights. Mining now is much more right leaning, which is pretty unfortunate.

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Right leaning tends to happen over time as a generation or two forgets about how bad things used to be for them.

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The recent EU elections are a pretty good reminder of this

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In late USSR miners were one of the most active strata. Pretty left. One can say, the only clearly left of that time’s protesters, because, well, around 1988 the general public in USSR was fed up with left ideologies.

See this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel_of_Oligarchy (it’s not too shit, from the eyes of Communists trying to find themselves a place in the society that is over them). EDIT: It’s an illustration to “fed up”, not to late USSR.

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