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Manifesto Of The Enrages By Jacques Roux

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terrifying turn: The first reading, “Manifesto of the Enrages” is a piece by Jacques Roux, who was a former priest turned radical revolutionary. He then became the leading voice for a group of people called the "Enraged," because they were constantly angry at the unfairness shown toward the ordinary, poor people. Roux demanded the government redress by any means necessary. In this speech Roux told out all the economic demands of this group. Roux explains his understanding of equality and trade. The sentence I picked says “Equality is but an empty illusion when the rich, through monopolies, have the decision of life or death over their own kind.” Here he is explaining that there is no equality because the rich have the decision of life and
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