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Klonda56's avatar

The country has been bewitched by the oligarchy’s use of divisive tactics such as racial stratification, as a distraction.

However, as capitalism accelerates in its ruthlessness, it’s now ravaging the poor in increasingly equal rates:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w32697

That actually provides the foundation for the lower class to start seeing common cause in throwing off the shakles and changing the system they living under.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Romanticist fantasies and Les Miz aside, revolutions do not happen when the 1% are united, as they will do whatever it takes to retain power.

Rather, revolutions happen when the 1% are divided amongst themselves, usually as a result of a foreign threat or an inability to divide up the spoils, and 1% factions start casting about for allies.

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Patrick Powers's avatar

This is true of the French revolution, but how about China with the Communist revolution?

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Feral Finster's avatar

Are you not aware of WWI? For that matter, the Chinese Century of Humilations?

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Patrick Powers's avatar

Must you insult me? And with a nonresponsive answer? I will not reply further to you.

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Feral Finster's avatar

No insult intended.

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