Thesis: Systems are brought down not by disaffected masses, but by disaffected elites. That English major from Westchester on her third unpaid internship? That city-level Communist Party official cut off from his real estate kickbacks? Those are the ones you should fear.
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And the American Revolution
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and end of communism in USSR; remember a quote of a communist party official saying "we were sick of lying to ourselves"
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Dickens told it so well in The Tales of Two Cities.
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Yeah fuck all those peasants and the emergent bourgeois class--they didn't do shit
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And the Russian revolution (brought about by the urban intelligentsia). And the Iranian revolution (brought about by the merchant bazzaris). And the Nicaraguan... Check out Theda Skocpol circa 1979https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_Social_Revolutions …
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Haitian Revolution, brought on by the most connected, educated black slaves
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American Revolution too, IMHO
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Mexican Revolution also, Spanish descendents tired of onerous kick backs to rich people in Spain.
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That's a pretty bold claim...
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poltical scientists have been saying this for some time
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