Then you better not watch any fireworks on Independence Day either

Comparing the American Revolution to random anarchist terrorists throwing bombs into crowds is... certainly something.

The founding fathers would have been called terrorists today by the British. Past the Boston Tea Party, the Green Mountain Boys is a pretty good example. "The Green Mountain Boys stopped sheriffs from enforcing New York laws and terrorized settlers who had New York grants, burning buildings, stealing cattle, and administering occasional floggings with birch rods." - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Green-Mountain-Boys

Nope, not excused. Did they have to ask nicely to have more rights? Unions right now are the lesser violent version of conflict with the police.

Furthermore, this is laughable: Later evidence indicated that only one of the police deaths could be attributed to the bomb and that all the other police fatalities had or could have had been due to their own indiscriminate gun fire.

Again, Blair mountain. I guess they didn't ask nice enough?

...with rights for all workers that today it would be unthinkable to even question? Or worse, women's suffrage? Or rights for people of color?

There's no such thing as a (successful) social movement that doesn't employ some amount of violence - the police and the state more generally simply won't allow it.

And this folks is why police infiltration in black blocs is so effective.

You've seen how it works out, that's correct. It works out with five day work weeks, sick leave, ban on child labor etc etc.

All social progress resulted from the threat of violence. It is the only mechanism though which the capitalist class can be convinced to make even the smallest concession.

A the way we do that is to declare that someone is a communist (whether or not they are), then equate communism to terrorism, then treat it with McCarthyism or Napalm.

How's the boot?

It's even more laughable the idea of people protesting for working conditions to be deemed as "communists"

I see you don’t understand what communism means. We’re talking about socialism here. Don’t let fear of what you haven’t bothered to learn rule your life.

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That's fair