<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Jul 11, 2020, at 7:33 AM, Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">The first phase of a Marxist revolution is erasing history writ large and small, with struggle sessions in store for anyone who disagrees. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There's a method to this madness. </div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>You really see this as a Marxist revolution? I see it as a protest movement. Mike many previous protest movements, it has many facets and it’s a bit chaotic. There are definitely, in my mind, many legitimate grievances and likely some excesses.<div><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Aside from statue removal and flag changes, though, almost nothing else seems to be happening. Yes, a few cities are going to “defund“ police, but they are few. History isn’t being erased — as if the statues taught people history or if that many people even cared about history in the first place. (Most people seem to care about preserving national myths anyhow.)</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>