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.
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.
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.
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.
This is true of the French revolution, but how about China with the Communist revolution?
Are you not aware of WWI? For that matter, the Chinese Century of Humilations?
Must you insult me? And with a nonresponsive answer? I will not reply further to you.
No insult intended.