[Gianni]

may i gently point out that permanent revolution was PRECISELY what Thomas Jefferson wanted. he believed that from stuggle & bloodshed would emerge LIBERTY.

I think that Jefferson realized that a permanent state of revolution was not equal to a permanent state of bloodshed and violence. All that was required to maintain liberty was the threat - that is, the revolutionary spirit that Wlat and his crew waste so much time arguing against.

[stand watie]

go re-read TJ on that subject. most people today would be horrified if they did read his writings from the revolutionary period.

the French Revolution tempered TJs taste for bloodshed as a tool to secure liberty, due to the republic' blood-drenched excesses.

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