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This has no historical basis. The system was designed to preserve control of government in the hands of the elite cadre who led the rebellion, whose ideological
by claudeganon 7y ago
This has no historical basis. The system was designed to preserve control of government in the hands of the elite cadre who led the rebellion, whose ideological differences were quite small in world historical terms. It’s meant to reconcile these differences, but is in no way broadly inclusive to political interests outside this narrow circumscription. Concessions have been won to further democratize the system, but these were largely accomplished outside its terrain in things like the Civil War, labor struggle, suffrage and civil rights movements.