On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> But I wonder is even the statement about expropriation from rich white
> owners completely true? I mean how do we know that a majority of
> the people
> in 1871 were not for expropriating the rich. Expropriating from
> the slave
> owners was briefly very popular at that time.
There have been times when expropriating the expropriators - and not normal style expropriation of the producers - was popular in the U.S., but it seems like it was always a minority view. The late 19th century, for example - but even so, the Populists couldn't win a presidential election.
Doug