Thomas Paine, Our Contemporary | Portside

Thomas Paine, Our Contemporary | Portside:

 "Thomas Paine, Our Contemporary," by Chris Hedges


Thomas Paine is America’s one great revolutionary theorist. Paine’s
brilliance as a writer—his essay “Common Sense” is one of the finest
pieces of rhetorical writing in the English language—is
matched by his clear and unsentimental understanding of British
imperial power. No revolutionist can challenge power if he or she does
not grasp how power works

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Portrait of Thomas Paine by Auguste Millière (1880).