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  The Meaning of Liberty Through History

  By Dave Ursillo on May 24, 2008

  Liberty: But a Word to Those Who Know Not It’s Meaning

  History has shown that it is characteristic of impoverished peoples who share a helpless and hopeless outlook on the ability to change a resident power structure to sooner use means of violence as revenge for suffered injustices than to seek out a more constructive end that could ensure their long-term liberation.

  For centuries, the peasant was a submissive, meager and powerless victim of recurring, unbalanced distributions of power. The peasant held no sense of what it meant to be an individual, no values self-determination or equal opportunity. He commonly …

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  Iraqi Liberty: Can It Hold?

  By Dave Ursillo on Dec 12, 2007

  “Liberty” is merely a word which fails to uphold empty promises to those who do not understand its true meaning.

  History is often solely viewed through the lens of the upper classes, considering that those who tend to write history are the ones who succeed in society.

  However, when history is viewed from the perspective of the peasant, even the most basic concepts of political change are interpreted in a radically different fashion.

  These concepts struck me strongly after reading and discussing Giovanni Verga’s Liberty, a piece of historical fiction which treats the Italian peasantry in the 19th century.  In …

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