As far as I can tell, Turchin himself doesn't see this as a bad thing but part of a social-corrective element. That when elite overproduction happens, you start

As far as I can tell, Turchin himself doesn't see this as a bad thing but part of a social-corrective element. That when elite overproduction happens, you start to get more of your Lenins, Luxembourgs, and Robbespierres, who have both the will and the wit take advantage of the instability in order to overthrow the social hierarchy under which they have been placed. That, in a society with ideal distribution of its production, these figures need not exist and would be better doing other things. But that their very existence is a symptom of wider systemic issues and they are the means of overcoming them.