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In reply to the discussion: New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]Turborama
(22,109 posts)" there are 3 other people who also only read the subject line and - just like you - totally missed all the other much more important points she was actually making."
Another deep breath and then this...
"IT DOESN'T"T MATTER WHAT SHE WROTE, I JUST COMMENTED ON THE SUBJECT LINE. WHY DO I HAVE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE WHEN THAT COMPARISON IS ON THE SUBJECT LINE, AND THAT'S WHAT I'M COMMENTING ON?'
Did you see what happened there?
You agreed with me.
Anyhoo...
"Working class history is generally accepted to begin with the enclosure of English commons" "The process of enclosure began to be a widespread feature of the English agricultural landscape during the 16th century." <--- This is the debunking of your spurious argument that the working class didn't exist at the time of the Luddites.
"The enclosure movement probably peaked from 1760 to 1832; by the latter date it had essentially completed the destruction of the medieval peasant community." <--- Medieval peasants were in sharp decline and were a tiny minority who would shortly be extinct, as opposed to the working class being a rapidly growing majority.
In conclusion, this is an irrefutable destruction of your abject history failure when insisting that the Luddites couldn't have been working class heroes as the country was full of peasants at the time and the working class didn't exist.
Nice try, though, grasshopper.