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Allan Pinkerton - The Knights of Capitalism (Patreon)

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2020-01-03 18:01:01
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We're kicking off the new year by wrapping up our Policing series. Since we've spent the series discussing London's move from citizen policing to state-funded and state-operated law enforcement, let's talk about what happens when you get money into the mix. And there's no private police force more famous than the scourge of union workers and labor strikes, the Pinkerton Agency, the Knights of Capitalism.


But would you be surprised to learn that their founder was a progressive and an abolitionist, forced out the UK after his own activist work. How did a man like Allan Pinkerton found an organization that stood in direct contrast to his own history?

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Join us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon The Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. A group synonymous with brutality, corruption, and private policing. But you may be surprised to learn about their founder, Allan Pinkerton, a man who was forced to flee his home country for supporting suffrage. So how did this progressive, working-class, activist become known for founding an agency famous for trading morals for money? It's a much stranger road than you may think. Check out all our shows at http://becauselearningmatters.com Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Thanks for participating in this week's discussion! We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: https://becausegamesmatter.com/extra-credits-community-code-of-conduct Contribute community subtitles to Extra History: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_Uydg&tab=2 Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Watch us play games and have fun on http://bit.ly/ECtwitch Listen to our podcast: http://becausegamesmatter.com/podcast Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/ECisonInstagram Follow us on Tumblr: http://bit.ly/EConTumblr ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Outro music: "Extra History - Odds and Ends" by Sean Kiner, Dean Kiner https://soundcloud.com/deankinersounds

Comments

Martin Verran

The Greed of the Capitalists is destroying our world in the name of profit.

Zakanuva
>>30717577

...and the Communists destroy the planet in the name of the Proletariat.

Edmund F Schramko

If cities, e.g., Seattle, can't (wont?) provide public safety while prohibiting citizens from defending themselves, then perhaps we need another Pinkerton equivalent.

Rolf Mützelburg

Garbage episode. It barely gave any information about the Pinkertons themselves, just a brief bio about thier founder and some pinko undertones. The title alone looks like the kind of tabloid worker's journal shit Vox would put out. "Knights of capitalism"? What Bolshavik Bullshit are you huffing to think union busting is capitalism? I suppose you And the rest of Trotsky Triad think Manopoly; (the literal subversion of Capitalist principles) is also capitalism! PMCs fight for capitalism. Pinkertons fought criminals, and by association got dragged into fighting communists as well, because the decentralized government couldn't handle the job at the time.

Spencer Jones

A fantastic episode that showed the strange beginnings and organization of the Pinkertons and about how the organization first began and how and why Allan Pinkerton started the whole thing. A very good look at how you can see that having a private police force that works for the highest bidder is not exactly the greatest idea for anyone except for the richest of the rich and will be used to suppress worker rights and power.

Victor Heinsberg
>>30717577

Capitalism with humane face is the way to go and capitalism is a thousand times better than communism. Climate change is a thing but we should just limit some things as climates always change the plastic is a problem though

Victor Heinsberg
>>30805225

That’s why we have trade unions which rig elections and our days sadly provide less and less for the actual worker

Victor Heinsberg
>>30770081

Your right my dude though they aren’t trotskyites or close to them most likely Socialists or Democratic socialists the same thing but one is a bit more market friendly, though pure capitalism is impossible as it is anarchies capitalism in that case.

Calvin McClory

7:00. That's some very clear socialist language. I hope at some point in the future you get an Austrian historian to be a guest writer. If you cater exclusively to a left-wing and center audience, you'll only a small view of the world.