All words no content. Those figures are taught as though they were talking about civic principles in a vacuum. As we know, that's fucking bullshit, and they were in actuality creating a system with a very specific minority in mind in need of protecting: the rich and wealthy. As ever, history without materialism yields even less understanding than complete ignorance. You cannot divorce those ideas from the class relations at the time, state of people's lives and organization of society, and the fact that the constitution was written by and for literal slavers. There is very little beauty behind those ideas when placed within their appropriate material context.
Even worse, sometimes they did write with a little more context, in which case what they said was repugnant and blatantly anti-democratic. Blocking debt forgiveness was a stated purpose of the Senate since before there was a Senate.
Sorry, I meant that of course what those ghouls wrote was awful. All you have to do is actually read their fucking words to see that.
But Americans are just taught the cliff notes version, or select texts considered "most important"... Those conveniently leave out all the stuff that might get the noggin joggin.
Oh no, I'm with you! What you said does apply to things they wrote and especially to what people like John Locke wrote, I just wanted to mention that there are also slightly more specific "beware mob rule" brainworms too.
That's what happens when civic education in the US is reading fuckers like Madison and Hamilton and being told that they were sages.
All words no content. Those figures are taught as though they were talking about civic principles in a vacuum. As we know, that's fucking bullshit, and they were in actuality creating a system with a very specific minority in mind in need of protecting: the rich and wealthy. As ever, history without materialism yields even less understanding than complete ignorance. You cannot divorce those ideas from the class relations at the time, state of people's lives and organization of society, and the fact that the constitution was written by and for literal slavers. There is very little beauty behind those ideas when placed within their appropriate material context.
Even worse, sometimes they did write with a little more context, in which case what they said was repugnant and blatantly anti-democratic. Blocking debt forgiveness was a stated purpose of the Senate since before there was a Senate.
Sorry, I meant that of course what those ghouls wrote was awful. All you have to do is actually read their fucking words to see that.
But Americans are just taught the cliff notes version, or select texts considered "most important"... Those conveniently leave out all the stuff that might get the noggin joggin.
Oh no, I'm with you! What you said does apply to things they wrote and especially to what people like John Locke wrote, I just wanted to mention that there are also slightly more specific "beware mob rule" brainworms too.