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saras

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2. What's wrong with radicalism? Doesn't it just mean getting to the root of the problem?

Reply to HiPointDem (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2012, 07:38 PM

May 2012

"Nothing,” he claimed, “breeds radicalism more than unhappiness unless it is leisure..."

Discontent and leisure breed radicalism? That seems pretty much like PROOF that radicalism is a good thing.

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kick HiPointDem May 2012 #1

What's wrong with radicalism? Doesn't it just mean getting to the root of the problem? saras May 2012 #2

the speaker was a businessperson. they don't like too much leisure and don't like radicalism. HiPointDem May 2012 #3