We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights …
If a consideration of privelige occupies the thoughts of North American progressives, by contrast the principle that has sometimes preoccupied radical politics in Italy (and perhaps, in other versions, radical politics elsewhere) is non credere di avere diritti – don’t believe you have rights. 
To weave - or tangle - some threads from Long Sunday: from the discussions of Schmitt that turned to Tocqueville, as well as Tronti’s reading of Tocqueville (and thereby perhaps reaching back to the discussion of Benjamin), but also recent commentaries on democracy, nationalism and Zizek (as well as patriotism and that game) …
Some excerpts from Tocqueville’s Democracy in America:
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