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The misuse of the word "revolution" when people talk about the "American Revolution" has done a great disservice to overall understanding of the term. (hexbear.net)
submitted 7 months ago by GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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Revolution is not when you exchange one group of landlords for a different set. It is a total upending of systems. That is the true meaning. Soc dems and reformists think we can just change the window dressing and call it systemic. "If the new lord is better than the old lord we can return to the happiness of feudalism." What a terrible thing to believe.

We must reclaim this term. These terms belong to the people not a bunch of centuries dead slaveholding jackasses in powdered wigs who didn't change a goddamn thing.

Just something I've been thinking about lately.

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

You think George Washington fell out of a coconut tree? The American revolution existed in the context of everything around it. The late 18th century was a time of tremendous upheaval in Europe where monarchies were being removed violently in favor of the installation of liberalism. It's hard to grasp the magnitude of these changes bc liberalism is what we have lived under for 200 years, but at the time these were pretty radical left wing ideas, and represented an evolutionary leap in governance.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

You think George Washington fell out of a coconut tree

This is an incredibly silly phrase. So silly I'm glad I was here to read it

[-] aaro@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

Everyone laughs at her for this but the coconut tree metaphor is singlehandedly the smartest thing Kamala Harris has ever said

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

No shot she actually said the coconut tree thing?

[-] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 7 months ago

It was something her Marxist mother once said to her.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

I guess she didn't fall too far from the family tree hyuck hyuck hyuck

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Damn I haven't heard her talk for years and she's still got that bone-dry-ass way of speaking

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Her laugh is so weird

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