The Commodification of Revolution

This idea of the preservation of the status quo will play an important role in the eventual commodification of revolution, which will appear in the United States and the world over 200 years later.   This idea also reinforces the notion of the bourgeois revolution, with the upper-classes using the lower-classes for their own personal gain only to put the lower-class back into its place after this goal has been met.                  The pamphlets of the revolutionary period merely expressed ideas that had long been developing and building throughout colonial society during the previous 40 years.  The ideas of the pamphlets reflected a way of thinking that many colonists already possessed.*

* Ibid., 189-90.

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