Schama: Are the Guillotines Being Sharpened? Simon Schama...

Schama: Are the Guillotines Being Sharpened?

Simon Schama tonight warns in the Financial Times that revolutionary rage is close to the boiling point in Europe and the US :

Historians will tell you there is often a time-lag between the onset of economic disaster and the accumulation of social fury. In act one, the shock of a crisis initially triggers fearful disorientation; the rush for political saviours; instinctive responses of self-protection, but not the organised mobilisation of outrage...


http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/05/schama-are-the-guillotines-being-sharpened.html