On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Chris Kromm wrote:
> Ooh, I'd like to hear more on the W.A. Williams point. CK
"So once again let us return to the Articles of Confederation. I suggest that we embark upon a sustained effort to organize a social movement dedicated to replacing the American empire with a federation of regional communities. No euphemisms and no talk about reform. The objective is to create a federation of democratic Socialist communities."
The argument is set out in Williams' book from a generation ago, *America Confronts a Revolutionary World: 1776-1976* (Morrow, 1976) and excerpted in *A William Appleman Williams Reader*, ed. Henry W. Berger (Dee, 1992), 345-59. A more recent Williamsonian argument is Jerry Fresia, *Toward an American Revolution: Exposing the Constitution and other Illusions* (South End Press, 1988)
--C. G. Estabrook