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Yes. The system is corrupt, vicious, indefensible. But numerous historical examples suggest that if you just "burn it down", the replacement would likely bring
by tetromino_ 6y ago
Yes. The system is corrupt, vicious, indefensible. But numerous historical examples suggest that if you just "burn it down", the replacement would likely bring an order of magnitude more barbarism, destitution, arbitrary violence, the vilest sorts of scapegoating and demonization, and expulsion or massacres of groups foolish and desperate enough to have taken the revolutionaries' initial promises at face value.