>From one perspective one could say that the French Revolution took place to secure property rights that included their right to own slaves in Santo Domingo. Or that the English Revolution of the seventeenth century took place to impose the will of God on the Romanish heathen of Ireland.
I've written on this list several times about the American Revolution, pointing out what seemed to me to be unavoidable realities about this assessment of the American Revolution, and certainly saw no accurate responses. I've dropped it in the category of Alexander Hamilton. Nobody's interested in Hamilton's reactionary and elitist politics. There is no mood for a historical evaluation of these things, particularly not when a philanthropic foundation backed by the New York Times has issued their imprimatur on it. What we don't get from any of these superficialities are concretes about what we face right now. I'm concerned what we are doing to make Black Lives Matter and those who care enough about historical questions have what they need to unravel these questions available to them, when and whether they are ready. Are the Democrats now in charge of the government going to hold Trump, Stone, Bill Barr, etc. responsible for what is now clearly documented criminal activities, coverups, and obstruction? Let's not talk about that when we can instead misrepresent the causes of the American Revolution as a partisan question? (Who says there are no differences between the parties, right?) Let's not talk about concrete measures when we can celebrate in words and . . . well, words . . .. the diversity that is the U.S. of A.. (Everybody like that new Join-the-CIA recruitment video?) Solidarity! Mark L. . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8364): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8364 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82563203/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
