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TheWraith

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71. Read up on the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 05:00 PM

Dec 2011

It's a stellar example of the total and utter failure of the "system is too corrupt/nonpolitical action is best" platform.

And yes, progress takes time. It took the Liberty Party, that splinter group, 25 years to accomplish their goal. But progress has always been slow, and it's never been accomplished by saying "well, that takes too long." Not to mention people have been reiterating the same belief that everything was about to crash and be wiped out in some form throughout the entire 20th century: the 1930s and the depression, the 1950s and McCarthyism, the 1960s and the hippie movement, the 1980s and the "greed is good" culture, etcetera.

Pretty much one of the biggest lessons you can get from history is this: things keep going one way or another, and progress rarely makes itself happen.

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