Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Cradle of Revolution
IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL we learned about the "shot heard round the world." In junior high we learned that one-third of the colonists were for the revolution, one-third against it, and the rest (conveniently) undecided. In high school we learned that George Washington wasn't much of a hero...
A monument on the Lexington Common says the events there began something that didn't end until after it created a revolution.
Taking a Marxist-Leninist line borrowed from the Progressive Labor Party, the Worker-Student Alliance insists that students subordinate themselves to workers as the vanguard of the revolution. Though W.S.A. thinks that Negro laborers will ultimately lead the movement, it hedges on the primacy of black workers at the start...
Voltaire was most nearly heroic in his stand against the church. In 1762, he fought to exonerate the name of a Protestant shopkeeper named Jean Galas, who had been tortured and killed on the false charge of murdering his son to prevent the boy's conversion to Catholicism. But...