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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by drumdance on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:42PM (#10549129)
Who benefitted most from the US revolution: sharecroppers or land owners?

It was an enormous risk for Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin & company, but the upside was huge. The average worker not so much. Non-landowners weren't even allowed to vote!

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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by nostrademons on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @04:00PM (#10549246)
That's what I'm saying about it being virtually impossible, by definition, to raise a class of people into power. What would it even look like for the proletariat to be in power? This was the promise of the Russian Revolution, but instead, what happened was that a small group of elites (the Communist Party Central Committee) was formed to do the actual governing, and then the proletariat remained the proletariat.

There are certainly examples of individual sharecroppers who attained power as a result of revolution, eg. William Few. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Few

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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by walshemj on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:42PM (#10549924)
Some people say that the AWI was a counter revolution by rich landowners
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