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To: c.hinton who wrote (7194)	6/25/2007 10:25:20 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 10087

Yes the other side is more disturbing. It also doesn't distantly resemble anything it today's society, and would not even with less extensive government wealth transfer. France before the revolution had rigid aristocratic classes, that had special privileges by law. The common people where often desperately poor, and government and law where tilted against them. The problem wasn't that they less than wealthy where not given sufficient handouts, the problem is that they where kept down while the aristocracy and esp. the king and his court received the handouts. ps.The glorious revolution and american revolutions were not revolutions in that the propertied class were not overthrown. Revolution is not defined as seizing property or casting down the wealthy. Its direct definition is pulling down the government, either overthrowing the government completely or seceding from a government that had previously exerted control (or trying to do one of those things if the revolution fails). By extension it gets used for any dramatic quick important change (like "scientific revolutions", or "the industrial revolution"). Neither definition requires seizing vast amounts of property from its owners.

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