[lbo-talk] class warfare

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu
Tue Dec 14 08:36:44 PST 2004


Great Tuchman story, but, as usual, Franken's conclusion is dead wrong. Arguing about tax breaks for the rich is indeed class warfare.


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> 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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