Arendt on Revolution

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall_2 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 15 10:47:48 PDT 2002


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:

The
> number of such men need not be great; ten men acting
> together, as
> Mirabeau once said, can make a hundred thousand
> tremble apart from
> each other.
>
> (Hannah Arendt, _On Revolution_, 1963, p. 116)
> *****
> --
> Yoshie

Is this optimism? Can "ten" religious nuts make abortions illegal? Are the multitudes minus 10 seriously that weak and fractured that "ten" men can change it all? Why those "ten" men and not another group of "ten" men????

===== Kevin Dean Buffalo, NY ICQ: 8616001 AIM: KDean75206 Buffalo Activist Network http://www.buffaloactivist.net http://www.yaysoft.com

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