Hell, it’s not limited to a communist revolution; ANY revolution that decides to up the ante and “get physical” will find them dragged out of their homes and dealt with rather harshly. I wonder if they realize that?
>Hell, it’s not limited to a communist revolution; ANY revolution that decides to up the ante and “get physical” will find them dragged out of their homes and dealt with rather harshly.
Rather sad, IMO... I’m in favor of a “radical Constitutionalists revolution”
Of course not, because these idiots are like the upper class Russian intellectuals who thought Communism would be brilliant, since they would be the ones leading and running things. They don’t realize that THEY are the ones who epitomize the idle rich that Marx ranted about, Lenin persecuted, and Stalin purged. Look at how they live for pity’s sake! These people are walking propaganda for any movement that hates the rich. It would be fitting in the US that if such a thing happened, that it would happen to the celebs, not the Wall Street execs or industrialists.
The revolution in Russia wasn’t really grassroots, but done by a bunch of agitators that didn’t really want a stable prosporous country, but wanted revolution. Another facet is taht the Czar wouldn’t let a constitution be formed and the aristocracy was exploiting their peasant laborers while living a jet set life. So there was no other way except for the Czar to have changed when it was time to grant a constitution. But he didn’t, he fought to retain the autocracy while at the same time being completely incompetent.
In China it was more grassroots, but even the Chinese are tired of Communism and I think that at the time of the revolution, that the people were at their wit’s end with the system in place and wanted fudnamental change than just a new dynasty. Mao exploited that aspect to gain power. Mao was exceedingly clever to tap into and trigger the rage that the peasants felt about their lack of choice, opportunity, and the failure of their government to protect them from the Imperial powers when they were ruthlessly colonized.
If someone cleverly tapped into the hatred that normal people feel for the privileges that the celebrities exploit and the crimes they get away with, then it could end up with the entertainment industry being ripped to pieces and celebs dragged into the streets and shot and their wealth looted. Which I think would be very therapeautic for a lot of poeple.