5.1. HISTORY'S TANGIBLE BASE

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MOST ACCOUNTS ARE POLITICAL NARRATIVES THAT STRESS IDEAS OR INDIVIDUALS — NOT THE UNDERLYING ECONOMY AND WHOM IT FAVORS 

Neglecting that base makes the past due to chance or simply incomprehensible. That approach makes our world seem so too.

These pages start with history

as a schoolbook tells it,

then suggest an alternative.

• An account that makes no sense

• "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" lets capitalism take wing   

• The Revolution of 1830: capitalism's neglected triumph 

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5.1.1.

An account that makes no sense