Document Type
Essay
Publication Date
12-1-2019
Keywords
American wealth, electoral college, french revolution, estate system
Abstract
The modern-day American wealth inequality epidemic coupled with the effective silencing of the masses through superdelegates and the Electoral College fosters conditions akin to Pre-Revolutionary France with the bourgeoisie being oppressed through wealth inequality and the Estate System.
Citation
Allen, A. (2019). Contrasting and Synthesizing Perspectives on Late Stage Capitalism and the French Revolution. Jessie O'Kelly Freshman Essay Award. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/englfea/5
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