[lbo-talk] Re: barbarian of the moment

[Michael Pugliese]

> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
>> I vaguely remember a historian's claim that about 1/3 of the American
>> colonists in the mid 1700s supported the revo, 1/3 were loyal to
>> G III, and 1/3 were undecided/ambivalent.  Don't know if this
>> is accurate, but I think Carrol has a good point: political
>> change is not simply a product of universal consensus.

   My 6th grade teacher spent a month on the American Revolution. He said 
that. A book Thomas has read, "A People's History of the American 
Revolution, " has much on this. http://www.thenewpress.com/books/phsar.htm
Ray Raphael
With an Introduction by Series Editor Howard Zinn

http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0312/newssu.htm
> ...Vladivostok Times" from last November 5th where there was a survey 
> done, with the following question: "What would you do if the 1917 
> Bolshevik Revolution happened again?" The results are as follows:

42% said that they would actively support the Bolsheviks.

27% said that they would wait out the results.

16% said that they would leave the country.

10% said that they would fight the Bolsheviks.

-- 
Michael Pugliese
American imperialism  has been made plausible and attractive in part by the 
insistence that it is not imperialistic.
Harold Innis, 1948
http://www.monthlyreview.org/sr2004.htm