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The left is why kids aren't working in factories. The right and center have done everything to keep us from remembering that fact.
If you want role models on the left there's plenty of them. You just won't find them as easily on YouTube.
Yes, but there aren't figure heads targeting this demographic with a specific rhetoric/ideology.
When they teach it in school about kids working in coal mines and meat factories, they don't teach the politics that went along with it.
No, unfortunately they don't teach it.
I didn't really understand it until I read The People's History of the U.S. a few decades later.