The Dig: Founding Finance with William Hogeland
Jacobin Radio
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Is There a Fundamental Conflict in the Revolution?
The founders were waging a war on two fronts, sort of a war without an award within. Ordinary people in mass numbers also wanted a revolution because they thought it could be a revolution for changing things up. But really, there's a fundamental conflict. The elites needed the people to be revolutionary, but they were not interested in sharing power and they were notinterested in changing the economic structures that made them elite.
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