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Article: The trouble with revolution. (French Revolution) (editorial)

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July 8, 1989
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The trouble with revolution

THE difficulty of getting from here to there has always been a puzzle, and not just to Irishmen. Here is tyranny: a system, usually today a communist one, that provides neither political rights nor meat on the table. There is freedom--liberty, equality, fraternity--with a chicken in every oven, a car in every garage and lead-free bullets in every gun. That vision is not so new. It was the inspiration behind those who stormed the Bastille 200 years ago next Friday. They found a way. Should today's revolutionaries, whether trade unionists in Warsaw, intellectuals in Budapest, students in Tiananmen Square or general secretaries of the ...

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