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mick063 (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 11:59 AM Original message |
Precursors to the French Revolution |
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mick063 (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. So what happened after that? |
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mick063 (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 12:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Send these two links to any 1%er or crazy idealogue |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
21. Let us know what kind of response you get. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 12:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. That is not what happened next. That is what happened four years later... |
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malthaussen (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I was just making the same points... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Well you know how it goes |
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mick063 (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. perhaps it didn't happen next. |
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malthaussen (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. How is the Terror the "ultimate outcome?" |
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mick063 (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:38 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. it indeed suits my narrative. |
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malthaussen (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:57 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. History cannot be revised? |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 05:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
35. (a) that quote is attributed to Zhou Enlai, not Mao |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. There were so many points on the way to the Terror |
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mick063 (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:55 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I like your argument. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. The path is set usually by those who try to |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
31. I don't have a degree in history |
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mick063 (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 03:54 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. The single reason the comparison is easy. |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. I agree with that |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 04:38 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. I am going to make a non popular statement |
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mick063 (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 05:13 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. I'll agree there is difference |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 05:20 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. You are ignoring the enlightenment |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. We're not quite there yet but |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Sir Winston Churchill |
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malthaussen (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Something I find interesting |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:12 PM Response to Reply #9 |
23. Not sure what you are referring to specifically. |
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Fantastic Anarchist (953 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
29. Yes, the New Deal to "save capitalism from itself." |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Sorry Zorra, that quote is George Santayana, not Churchill. |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
26. Thanks. My bad. You are correct. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Twain perhaps put it best: History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. He put a lot of things best, IMO. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Actually, that quote comes from the Spanish philosopher George Santayana - n/t |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 09:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
38. Spanish citizen, but US-American intellectual... |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-26-11 11:40 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Thanks for that. I had always thought of Santayana as Spanish, even |
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Huey P. Long (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
10. Women's March on Versailles |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:01 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Ah, yes, the women . . . |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. But..but...they didn't have a clear message or clear goals! |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Yep, you got the idea. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. The "founding fathers" didn't have a clear idea or set of goals in 1776. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
22. Chris Hedges (paraphrasing Crane Brinton) had some interesting |
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Fantastic Anarchist (953 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Kicking to read that ... |
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