• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    Revolution will either come, killing most of us

    Historically, its not the revolution that kills you but the reaction.

    From America to France to Russia to China to Spain to Vietnam to Cuba, the early years involved a lot of marching and politicking and petitioning and negotiating.

    But then some of the revolutionaries win one too many concessions or elections than a current government can stand. That’s when the guns come out and things fall apart.

    Your Francos and Pinochets and Chiang Kai-Sheks start pouring out of the woodwork. Your Austrians start invading with support from the British. Or your French reinvade after you just finished pushing out the Japanese.

    That’s when the killing starts in earnest.