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In Reply to: RE: I think it's more than that posted by genungo on September 21, 2014 at 14:10:44:
You mean this kind of thing (from Wiki...)
Historian H. W. Brands noted that in the years after the Gold Rush, the California Dream spread across the nation:
The old American Dream ... was the dream of the Puritans, of Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard"... of men and women content to accumulate their modest fortunes a little at a time, year by year by year. The new dream was the dream of instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck. [This] golden dream ... became a prominent part of the American psyche only after Sutter's Mill."[6]
Historian James Truslow Adams popularized the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book Epic of America:
But there has been also the American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.[1]
Pretty close to Marxism, ironically, though "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is a slogan first used by Louis Blanc in 1851
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- Been researching... - andy evans 14:58:36 09/21/14 (1)
- Interestingly... - genungo 20:20:07 09/21/14 (0)
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