Great essay Frances. But I still stick by my feeling and the evidence about revolutions being largely dysfunctional. I appreciate your Malcolm X position, but as Lucius Malfoy tells Harry Porter, you might "meet the same sticky end." As for the Peasant Revolt many historians conclude that the plague was more essentially to altering there bargaining power. Plus, the Enclosure Acts in the 1700- 1800s set the social justice march back once again. Today our serfdom arises not only from the land commodification, but hyper-financialization and techno-feudalism generally (and AI will make it only worse). SERFS UP!!!!!