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bucolic_frolic

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1. Yes, it's a revolution, a culture war as they're calling it

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Sat May 14, 2022, 03:29 PM

May 2022

Professor Crane Brinton's 1930s book "The Anatomy of Revolution" remains the classic study of revolution, and his observations on the classic political revolutions - American, French, English 1688, Russian - are applicable today to this ongoing slime fest being thrown at us. Well worth the read.

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This Is How a Totalitarian Society Is Born [View all] Nevilledog May 2022 OP

Yes, it's a revolution, a culture war as they're calling it bucolic_frolic May 2022 #1

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