If there WAS a broad mass-based left-wing revolution during a Democratic presidency...

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18. Genovese was a Marxist radical

who turned right politically in his later years, long after the above book was published. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/108044/radical-right-wing-the-legacy-eugene-genovese

He one of the greatest and most influential historians of slavery, not just of the US but of the entire Atlantic slave system. Dismissing him because he knows something about history doesn't help your case. You clearly don't have the most basic understanding of his work or the literature he was responding to. That you would argue he thought slaves were content with slavery is patently absurd.

I explained why I used the reference and that you were not willing people to revolution but the way you posit it in this poll so offhandedly, and use the Democratic Party as a counterpoint, is frankly bizarre. The question is not natural. It's absurd.

I can tell you what this poll is about. It's about what a great deal of the discussions around here are about: People proclaiming themselves more leftist than others, labeling others as centrist or in the case of your insult to me, invoking the right. Pick support the revolution and you're okay. Pick crush it and you're bad, when the fact is the entire scenario is fantasy.

Accusing me of using right-wing tropes is ignorant. You have no idea what you're talking about. The fact you turn to insults rather than deal with substance shows as much. Just because you wish something to happen doesn't make you more leftist than people who know something about how revolutions actually come about.

What are the circumstances that would give rise to revolution? What pattern would it follow? Which segments of society would revolt? Why? What would they seek to change? Where would the leaders of the revolution come from? What theory of revolution explains what you envision? Which revolution do you think it would most resemble? Why?

You do know the segments of the population best equipped and disposed to rise up are the right? They are the ones who are armed , hate the government, and are also better organized. The fact the left thinks it can muse about this sort of stuff from behind a computer screen explains as well as anything why politics in this nation continues to move ever rightward.

Obviously no one will revolt because of what is you type. What kind of absurd comment is that? You got and decided to ask some idle question that at best is wishful thinking.