IVIV (8): Downstairs Eddie

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> Joseph Tracy sez:
>
>> Course that reflects also a secret passion of the imagination
>> where the boss is killed and wealth redistributed. Not all that
>> secret , there was this little incident of the American Revolution.
>
> Yebbut the thing of it was that it *wasn't* a revolution in the French,
> Russian, Chinese sense, but a war of independence combined with a bloodless
> Glorious Revolution Mk. 2.
>
> The colonial rebels were aiming for a polity in which there would still be
> very rich and very poor, *but* the former would have no special claim on law
> or state power.... well, aside from those nitpicky details about voting only
> if you were white and male and had $X worth of property,...

... including, as M&D, if nothing lese, reminds us, slaves ...