Jon Johanning wrote:
>
> One big problem with socialism in this country, I
> think, is that most Americans just don't think of themselves as
> "revolutionaries." The whole romance of mounting the barricades,
> storming the Winter Palace, etc.,
Gee, who wudda guessed it. As of January 1917 no one in Russia thought of themselvesd as mounting the barricades. As of December 1967 no one in France dreamt of mounting the barricades.
Another secret equivalent to this one. All black cats are cats.
I tried for 41 years to persuade undergrads that they should try to avoid tautologies, which always sound terribly profound (or as Pope put it, profund) until reduced to the statement that a is a.
There are no revolutionaries in the u.s because -- surprise, surprise - there are no revolutionaries in the u.s.
Carrol