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To: Pox

Somebody needs to repost the short story “What I Saw on the Way to the Revolution.


18 posted on 08/16/2022 2:42:14 PM PDT by themidnightskulker (1Q)
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To: themidnightskulker

I did a search on “What I Saw on the Way to the Revolution” but didn’t find anything.

This thread does remind me of the short booklet called “The Revolution Was” that was written in 1938 about FDR and the New Deal.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts

Excerpt:

Now given (1) the opportunity, (2) a country whose fabulous wealth was in the modern forms dynamic, functional, non-portable, (3) a people so politically naive as to have passed a law against any attempt to overthrow their government by force and, (4) the intention to bring about what Aristotle called a revolution in the state, within the frame of existing law Then from the point of view of scientific revolutionary technic what would the problems be?

They set themselves down in sequence as follows:

The first, naturally, would be to capture the seat of government.

The second would be to seize economic power.

The third would be to mobilize by propaganda the forces of hatred.....


84 posted on 08/16/2022 11:32:12 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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