wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/01/pers-j01.html Historically speaking, these events belong to the epoch of bourgeois democratic revolutions in the United States and internationally. Yet the principles embodied in them have a broader, universal significance. The bourgeois democratic revolutions were the precursors to the great social revolutions. The American Civil War, in the words of Marx, “sounded the tocsin” for the future struggles of the international working class. How stark is the contrast between the principles advanced in these revolutions and the actions of the American government today! Predictably, Obama has said virtually nothing about the 150th Anniversary of Gettysburg. While the celebrations this week will attract hundreds of thousands of people, the media has given scant attention to them. And what could they say? How can they evoke the traditions of the Civil War and the Revolution without exposing their own hypocrisy?
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:21:36 +0000
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