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Narratives of Empowerment
"Conservatives descend from the 'Tories' of the Revolutionary War"
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Challenges the self-professed continuity of conservativism with American Revolutionary ideals. |
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Contribute to the marginalization of right-wing ideological narratives. |
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Reclaim patriotism. |
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The Tories supported Empire (the British one), while Patriots stood for a democratic republic. |
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Tories supported the crown's standing army and navy, while Patriots held that militarism was a threat to liberty. |
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Tories supported the government's right to arbitrary control over people's bodies, via empressment, arbitrary arrest, and other abuses; while Patriots opposed forced military recruitment and defended the right of habeas corpus. |
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Tories tended to support state association with religion, while Patriots stood for separation of church and state (many Patriots were deists or atheists). |
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More Information
- Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory, Laclau
- The Spitting Image, Lembcke
- Vietnam and Other American Fantasies, Franklin
- M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America, Franklin
- Trouble Tickets' narratives book selections
- Reading Capital, Althusser
- Lenin and Philosophy, Althusser
- Louis Althusser, Montag
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