"Bread is Freedom and Freedom is Bread: A Post-Structuralist Marxist Analysis of the Rhetoric of Lucy Parsons" by Irmak Era Yapıcı
Bread is Freedom and Freedom is Bread: A Post-Structuralist Marxist Analysis of the Rhetoric of Lucy Parsons Born into chattel slavery in Virginia and raised in Texas, Lucy Parsons navigated a trajectory of radical self-construction that established a foundational precedent for subsequent generations of activists. Although biographical details of her early years remain fragmentary, Parsons emerged as a definitive figure among nineteenth-century women of color, strategically adopting Mexican and Native American ancestral narratives to navigate the era’s pervasive racial hierarchies. Following her relocation to Chicago with Albert Parsons, a prominent anarchist later executed in the wake of the Haymarket Affair, the couple integrated deeply into radical leftist infrastructures. Their involvement in the Workingmen’s Party of the United States (WPUSA) and the utilization of their domestic space for political organizing positioned them at the vanguard of the nascent American socialist ...
