Cincinnati: The Reds come home to roost....

Shout out to my old comrade, Geoff Bliss. here's his lil' piece on our community space Soapbox Books & Zines's new neighbourhood SoapBox Books & Zines: http://www.globalsiteplans.com/…/forgotten-history-the-cin…/ To add to Geoff's take: "In spite of these successes, anti-Communism, politics, loss of financing, and internal conflicts led to its demise. Cincinnati's mayor accused the Mohawk-Brighton organization of manifesting an "alien" philosophy in its work, implicating it as being just short of Bolshevism, the bogeyman of U.S. political life in these "Red Scare" years. In THE ORGANIC CITY, Mooney-Melvin expands on the controversy, and the aspects of the Mohawk-Brighton organization considered most objectionable. Although the membership of social unit founder, Wilbur Phillips, in the Socialist Party at an earlier stage in his life, was cited as evidence of complicity, this appeared to be minor. More important was the attempt to organize residents at the local level, something seen as too similar as the "soviets" of the Bolshevik experiment.". In the spring of 1919 Cincinnati's mayor, John Galvin, accused the MBSUO of expressing an alien political philosophy and declared that it was "a serious menace to our municipal government and but one step removed from Bolshevism." ) Social Unit Is Serious Menace to City Government, Says Mayor Galvin," Cincinnati Enquirer, March 11, 1919, p. 7. See also “Who Makes Bolshevism in Cincinnati” New Republic, April 19, 1919, 367.