From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:37:40 -0000
David Hobby wrote: > >> Germany had *no* democratic traditions at all > > None? Not even whatever filtered in from Switzerland? > Switzerland is not Germany :-P
> And what of the failed revolution of 1848?
I must have fluked this History Class. What happened in 1848?
I'm sure Google can cough up some links on this, but here's the situation in a nutshell: Inspired by America's success with democracy, the liberal, nationalist middle class started a revolution in Prussia and some other, more minor German states. A National Assembly was convened. The liberals wanted to form a democratic 'German Confederacy', but conservative reactionaries squashed it. More than 4000 liberals fled to political asylum in America.
My answer to ' And what of the failed revolution of 1848? ' is, what about it? Those liberals became Americans and took their democratic ideas with them and their failed revolution didn't establish new traditions, right?
Of course, that's all from memory, so I could be wrong. :) Jon I'm only infallible on alternate wednesdays Maru
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