> > > In my experience, if this "reform" wasn't won because of pressure from
> > > below, it isn't as good as it looks. If it was simply granted because
> > > of the benevolence of those on top, it can just as eaily be revoked.
> >
> > It seems to me that there is no reform that isn't won by pressure from
> > below in one sense or another.
>
> we don't if there was a _good_ reform or not,
What, you don't trust my feminine instinct? ;->
It's true that you're _always_ right, Yoshie. Instinct trumps
intellect every time. ;-)
--
Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only
an international crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal
