The reference is from "the 18th Brumiere of Louis Napolean" by Marx. Can't
remember the page off the top of my head.

>At 23:42 17/08/99 +1000, Rob wrote:
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>>Here's a nice line on revolutionary peasantries and 'alliances':  "They
>>cannot represent themselves, they must be represented.  Their representative
>>must at the same time appear as their master, as an authority over them, as
>>an unlimited power that protects them against the other classes and sends
>>them rain and sunshine from above.  The political influence of the
>>small-holding peasants, therefore, find its final expression in the
>>executive power subordinating society to itself."
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>>Ring a bell, does it?
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>Could you give the reference please?
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>Chris Burford
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