If there WAS a broad mass-based left-wing revolution during a Democratic presidency...

[Ken Burch]

15. Again, I'm not TELLING people to revolt.

Why are you obsessed with making this thread about me? It's about larger issues, not my ego.

And Eugene Genovese was a reactionary who ended up spending most of his life demonizing the entire left for Stalinism, when only people who were involved in the CP in the 1920's through 1950's(and not even all of them)bore any responsibility for defending that, and when even those in the CPUSA couldn't have done anything to stop Stalin or bring him down.

BTW, Genovese was being arrogant himself in assuming that anyone who asked that question about Nat Turner was DEMANDING that the slaves revolt when the slaves weren't doing so(Genovese was getting pretty damn close to implying that the slaves were content with slavery, when none of them ever actually accepted it as their natural station in life, but simply chose not to actively revolt when it didn't look like revolt had a chance to succeed). Those who WOULD have asked that question would have done so simply because they didn't understand why slave revolts weren't more widespread-they weren't calling the slaves cowards, for God's sakes.

If there were to be a revolt here, it would be because the mass of people chose, of their own free will, to revolt...NOT because I posted something on a computer screen calling for them to do it. That goes without saying.

And I do realize that revolutions are a rare thing...I simply asked a natural question.

You aren't a right-wing person, but you are using right-wing tropes(without realizing it, perhaps)to question my motives here.