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yes and but why.

Wikipedia Article on Railway Mania: Text reads: Railway Mania was a stock market bubble in the railway industry of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the 1840s. It followed a common pattern: as the price of railway shares increased, speculators invested more money, which further increased the price of railway shares, until the share price collapsed. The mania reached its zenith in 1846, when 263 Acts of Parliament for setting up new railway companies were passed, with the proposed routes totalling 9,500 miles (15,300 km). About a third of the railways authorised were never built—the companies either collapsed because of poor financial planning, were bought out by larger competitors before they could build their line, or turned out to be fraudulent enterprises to channel investors' money into other businesses. On right side, painting of passengers riding a new train line.
Essay by Paul Mattick written in 1972: “One Dimensional Man in Class Society” on Marxists.org: “In an address delivered in Korcula, Yugoslavia, Herbert Marcuse raised the question of “whether it is possible to conceive of revolution when there is no vital need for it.” The need for revolution, he explained, “is something quite different from a vital need for better working conditions, a better income, more liberty and so on, which can be satisfied within the existing order. Why should the overthrow of the existing order be of vital necessity for people who own, or can hope to own, good clothes, a well-stocked larder, a TV set, a car, a house and so on, all within the existing order.” (1) Marx, Marcuse related, expected a working-class revolution because, in his view, the labouring masses represented the absolute negation of the bourgeois order. The accumulation of capital destined the workers to increasing social and material misery. They were thus both inclined and driven to oppose and to transform capitalist society. However, if the proletariat is no longer the negation of capitalism, then, according to Marcuse, “it is no longer qualitatively different from other classes and hence no longer capable of creating a qualitatively different society.”
Skippy from the Disney movie Robin Hood (1973) in a blue shirt and brown feathered hat pointing left with a wooden sword saying “Death to Tyrants!”
Post text: We cannot share a free country with these people. Either it will not be free or one group-us or them—will no longer be in this country. They've made their choice. Have we made ours? Post text by Bill Mckay at Mckay4senate.bsky.social
Map of the true extent of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts highlighted in green, divided into Northern and Southern Massachusetts.