[lbo-talk] class warfare

snit snat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Tue Dec 14 03:54:41 PST 2004


on another list, someone's been using a line from Al Franken for her sig:

"In her book *A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century*, Barbara Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise valley. At one estate, the serfs sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and kids. Then, after ten or twelve peasants violated the lady, with the children still watching, they forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her husband and then killed her.

*That* is class warfare.

Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the top one percent is not."

"We live under the Confederacy. We're a podunk bunch of swaggering pious hicks."

--Bruce Sterling



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