Re: Revolutions

[WMSteed@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/16/00 4:46:54 PM, kkhowe@moscow.com writes:

<< They were men of land and wealth who generally enlisted armies from the

%40-%50 of the population that was poor and struggling, with the promise of

a better, richer future for them than what they faced under British rule...

the leaders may have been wealthy, but the masses dying in the fields were

poor... >>

No argument.  But, the stated premise was that all bloody revolutions are 
started by "gross inequities in the distribution of wealth and power." My 
reply was that the American Revolution wasn't a such a case but rather one of 
the rich protesting taxation.  Would be certainly hard to do today as present 
day proposed tax refund/tax reduction proposals seem to fall on deaf ears.

Walter Steed