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1830 was what, a failed revolution in France (The Orleanist king replacing the Legitimist one...), Belgium independence, and Greek independence ? Not that much more major.
As geezer pointed out, "they" have been getting better at shutting down revolutions. Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
As geezer pointed out, "they" have been getting better at shutting down revolutions.
but as someone in '68 (if I remember right) pointed out "they" have to succeed every time whereas the revolutionaries only have to succeed once. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Paris students now cheer for the cops, and when they demonstrate, it is to get jobs and money. Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
Anyone here ever read the port huron statement? Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
Conveniently forgotten are the general strike, the huge salary raises, the PC attempting to stop the strikes, the real political thoughts that were produced and then conveniently forgotten, the very durable changes in the wage hierarchy and the labour-capital divide of the GNP.... Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
Yes. And I sat behind literature tables trying to get other people to read it too.
Gawd it's been .... 40 years (!?!)
eek She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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