Something we want to talk about and that we want you to return to read and learn from as we have about whether it is we face now. And we do in this country face an extraordinary structure that has done the things that were so upsetting. One example referred to by all of us, democracy in those days was a word that was akin to a chaotic, disorganized, messy, negative, negative, negative. We lived in a bizarre reversal. Now it is the holy of holies. We celebrated democracy the way we celebrate cowboys in the old days. A complete fantasy, a makeup so that we can indulge this desire as an economist i keep saying this and i know some of you have heard it from me before. We go to work. We spend five out of seven days a week and when we go to work we enter a place in a capitalist society that is the absolute opposite of democracy. A tiny group of people, major shareholders and boards of directors make all the decisions thousands of employees not to speak of the communities where they work have
Articulated in the american idiom or liberty, equality, more has to be done. That is what inspired, if i may be so bold, karl marx. He is born in the euphoria of the american and french revolutions. He is caught up in all of that. He believed in it. He loved it. When he looked around germany and his time, it was not happening the way it was supposed to. The end of the feudal regime had not brought liberty and equality and fraternity. It had brought capitalism which they only thought might be the road to liberty, equality, and fraternity. And then made this crucial discovery that capitalism is not the bearer of liberty, equality, and fraternity. It is the biggest obstacle imaginable. And then begins the learning that we are part of. The next revolution inspired and even made possible by the likes of tom paine now have to be informed by what is our problem. That is in the king. That is a piece of theatrics. We feel empathy for the money they pass away on that. Our problem is an Economic
Cruise and hell fire missiles. The answer to the question was, dont worry about the center of revolution shifting someplace else because it was never here. Doesnt mean theres no struggle here. This topic has come up a lot in your questions, and this is, can you connect paines radicalism the immediate crisis associated with climated change . A couple of questions related to Climate Change. If we had a sores of Abundant Energy would we have a revolution. Paine believed in like the enlightenment, but he also believed in wholeheartedly in material advancement and material progress. He said the earth is given to us as our inherittans. He broke with jefferson. Jefferson was terrified of the american revolution, paine saw it as a benefit and paine often talked about giving up political activity and designed an iron bridge and he had, like many of the artisan class of the day, deep interest in science. So if we talk about blind spots in paine, that would probably be one. All right. I think the
And not sure it can be broadly characterized in that way. An example you gave, folks who are telling the truth, exposing lice, bearing witness in the name of the struggles of poor and working people are not a mob it only becomes a mob when the gangsters takeover, just like the reign of terror, the french revolution. That is when the mob spilled over in the name of the people. Just like they were gangsters in the name of the kingdom of the church, synagogue, and judaism, christianity, buddhism or whatever. For thomas paine, for him this was what he called a religious duty. He thought he had found the will of god by doing justly, loving mercy loving mercy and endeavoring to make his fellow creatures happy. That is the language from the rights of man. But it has the center of revolution sent shifted away. The center of revolution, 1776 in 1960. America has been the best in of White Supremacy and the role of capital. A man. We have had resistance and protest but we have not had as south af
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