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Democracy in the Age of Riots

It Could Happen Here

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Are the Luddites Collective Bargaining by Riot?

Is it E.P. Thompson who called the Luddites collective bargaining by riot? Like, quite possibly. It's often like reference now and other stuff. I'm pretty sure there's no Alfred discourse in it. There's lots of other discourse he calls, I- Coward. Is it Bane? No, he calls Joker? He calls one of the Batman villains a Thursday night,. which I think is very funny. The structure of Athenian society is very much determined by who isn't included in the people - women can't vote, if you're a slave, you also can't vote.

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