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That's possibly every state in the last 400 years, with the possible exception of the soviet union and Maoist China, and those exceptions are arguably just a te
by RobotToaster 5mo ago
That's possibly every state in the last 400 years, with the possible exception of the soviet union and Maoist China, and those exceptions are arguably just a technicality.
- catlover76 5mo ago[dead]
- throwaway27448 5mo agoMaoist china certainly and famously murdered many rich people. It's true that the state that emerged had deep corruption and that life remained difficult for the poor, but murdering rich people is an allegation difficult to deny.
- ryandrake 5mo agoI think what's different is that we actually have democracy, yet for whatever reason, the masses of poor people keep voting for governments that overtly and openly only care about rich people.
- rdevilla 5mo agoYou forget the French, who inspired Marx's exhortations to practice "revolutionary terror," the "only way," [0] with their own public executions of the rich [1]. [0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/11/06.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/11/06.htm [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror