The one big thing you can learn about popular uprisings from history is that they change nothing unless the classes above have reasons to seek a reconfiguration of power at higher levels. They're just flash floods that drain away unless parties with more power capture them.
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Such reconfigurations, if they are in fact poised to happen, rearrange the higher classes fairly dramatically, and only deliver table scraps to the lowest classes that supplied the energy.
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Do you have example uprisings that support this point? Been thinking a lot about this comment and it resonates. Want to backtest.
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How do you see the popular uprisings that started the Russian revolution of Oct 1917?
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