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shamash 01-Jul-12, 23:48	Deleted by shamash on 02-Jul-12, 00:18.
shamash 02-Jul-12, 00:17	It just shows what a book can do. A Happy Birthday to JJR: this week marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- the man who with "Du Contrat Social" {The Social Contract} observes in his very first line: <<"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.">> Or, in English translation: <<"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.">> Futher on in his little book he makes the transition from "I desire" as the basis of everything, to "We desire" ========> -- and that transition to class-for-itself political consciousness became the basis for every revolution since, especially those in France and in Russia. Am proud to have a pocket-sized copy from Paris from 1793 (during the Revolution it inspired) that belonged to one of the French Revolutionaries.

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