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It's been three months since I wrote for @TheAtlantic that if the USA was not having a revolution, we were definitely living in revolutionary times. (#Kant) Much [sic] has happened since April 6th. Delighted to have published a follow-up essay today: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
2/ When protesters in San Juan & Ferguson marched with a guillotine, folks said “Rebecca, here’s your revolution!” This misstates role of guillotine in Fr Rev (was used in official executions, not cause of most deaths), imagines symbols of past revns = content of new ones
3/ In one of my favorite texts, _ The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte_, Marx wrote that revolutions "dress up" in the past to delude themselves about own content. Luther as the apostles, the bourgeois Fr Revn as Roman Republic/Empire. marxists.org/archive/marx/w…
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