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From: matthews@harvard.ARPA (Jim Matthews)
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Subject: America, circa 1776 vs. Nicaragua, circa 1985
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 14:26:38 EST
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> For those interested in trying a short thought-exercise, try replacing
> "Cuban" with "French", "American" with "British", "Contra" with "Indian
> and Hessian", "Ortega" with "Washington", and "Nicaragua" with "America";
> now step back a couple of hundred years and north a couple of thousand
> miles and ask yourself if it all sounds reasonable. Interesting...
> 
>                                         Bill Laubenheimer
> ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
>      ...Killjoy went that-a-way--->     ucbvax!wildbill

	Interesting, perhaps, but none too meaningful.  America has
never had a revolution -- never.  The government of post-Independence
America was different from the one preceding it only so far as it was
independent.  The element of civil war and class war was totally absent.
Furthermore, the equation of 18th century Enlightenment ideas with those
of Marxism and Leninism is an offense to the intellect.

Jim Matthews
matthews@harvard