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You think the suffering peasant dragging the wealthy into the streets gives a shit about how many layers of indirection lie between his suffering and their weal
by happytoexplain 1y ago
You think the suffering peasant dragging the wealthy into the streets gives a shit about how many layers of indirection lie between his suffering and their wealth?
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> the suffering peasant dragging the wealthy into the streets Even in the French Revolution, when money and people were much less mobile than they are today, the aristocracy as a whole consolidated their wealth. To the extent anyone wants a revolution in America who isn’t an idiot, it’s the rich.
- steveBK123 1y agoIndeed. I am forgetting the title now, but one book I read on revolutions framed them generally as a "rotation of elites" in the general case. That is - even what appears to be some sort of grassroots / working class / peoples revolution it just moves power from one set of elites to another..
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> it just moves power from one set of elites to another To be fair, replacing useless elites with good ones, even violently, can be good. But it doesn’t mean the old elites face justice. And it generally takes the revolutionary elite a generation to learn to govern.