• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    2 年前

    balance power away from the 1% and back to the masses

    By installing a dictator…every time it’s attempted…

    Maybe not do that next time and try doing it from the bottom up instead of top-down🏴. It’s much more work to convince people that this is a solution and have them help willingly instead of forcing them to go along with it. We tried the Marxist-Leninist way dozens of times, let’s try the anarchist way. A capitalist boot or a communist boot on my neck makes no difference to me, it’s still a boot on my neck.

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      2 年前

      Why did Napoleon take power after the French Revolution if Capitalism doesn’t have dictators every time a revolution occurs?

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          2 年前

          HE WAS AVERAGE HEIGHT FOR THE TIME PERIOD!!! (I miss overlysimplified so much)

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      2 年前

      Maybe not do that next time and try doing it from the bottom up instead of top-down🏴.

      Those have been tried, but they often tend to get liberated by the CIA. Or in some cases, the KGB / Red Army.

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        I’m certainly not advocating for toppling other countries’ governments, but honestly the fact that so many countries end up not being able to withstand the attacks from outside is kind of a mark against them.

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          Well, that’s the problem with bottom-up government, isn’t it? It is better in most ways, but the local empire will invade you at the first chance they get.

          If I remember correctly, the fall of the Paris commune to a Franco-German alliance was what led the early Marxists to embrace a centralised system. Of course, that brings its own problems, as power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.