Postmodern Marx

[Brad De Long]

>Politically, Blake was a radical.  He was part of a circle of friends
>that included Thomas Paine.  During the 1790s they were noted
>for their sympathy to the French Revolution and were subject
>to persecution from Pitt's government because of it (Paine had
>to eventually flee from Britain to avoid imprisonment)...

...and he fled to France, where if I recall correctly the French government
did imprison him for various counterrevolutionary deviations...

Brad DeLong