RES: a trip to North Korea

Jacob Segal jpsegal at rcn.com
Mon Apr 24 12:25:25 PDT 2000


For those interested in a "left" interpretation of Mr. Jefferson, I recommend The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson, by Richard K.Matthews (University of Kansas Press). Short and good.

Jacob Segal


>They were bourgeois revolutionaries, not socialists, what do you expect. --jks
>
> The
>> U.S. "Founding Fathers" created a system designed to limit popular
>> sovereignty and insulate a propertied ruling class against the
>> depredations of the mob - or, as Madison listed the dangers in
>> Federalist No. 10 <http://www.mcs.net/~knautzr/fed/fed10.htm>: "a
>> rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal
>> division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project."
>>
>> Doug



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