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Friday, July 13, 2012

Nicholas Pell: What the French Revolution Tells Us About Today's Activist Movements (in AlterNet.org)

"The lessons of the French Revolution -- that history is a process, that it’s possible to completely remake the world, that ordinary people can do this and that some people simply have a vested interest in the existing order -- are relevant today, perhaps more so than they were in 1789."

Full article: What the French Revolution Tells Us About Today's Activist Movements.

A meditation on what Bastille Day has to tell us about the success or failure of revolutions.