Article: Mother Jones, Anti-Feminist.

TO KNOW NOTHING OF WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN IS TO REMAIN EVER A CHILD--Cicero

Today we know Mother Jones as the name of a magazine for yuppie consumerist liberals whose idea of a radical act is selling their R.J. Reynolds stock and buying Microsoft. The real Mother Jones--Irish-born Mary Harris Jones (1830-1930), the coal miners' angel and hell-raiser who said "I would fight God Almighty himself if he didn't play square with me"--was both far more radical and far more reactionary than her namesake.

Her nickname was not bestowed sarcastically. Mother Jones, whose husband and four young children had died of yellow fever, venerated the family ...

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