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IMHO, the reactionaries during the revolution were the loyalists, not the rebels. And many of the folks that signed the Delcaration were liberals - although the definition of liberal and conservative in the 1770s doesn't exactly translate to the 21st Century very well. They were a pretty diverse group of folks united in their desire for Independence. On much else they disagreed.

BTW - you continue to bring up the fact that I have read some Karl Marx as if I should be ashamed of it. Among the other people I have read are Charles DeGaulle, Adolph Hitler, Winston Churchill, Ghandi, Martin Luther and Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Trotsky, Whittaker Chambers, J. Edgar Hoover, and Henry Kissinger. Anybody else you think I ought to be ashamed of reading? Planning a book run later this week, and need some suggestions - perhaps there is someone I need to read more of.