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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's harder to build something than to destroy it. I'd you destroy a system with nothing to replace it, the rich and powerful will swoop into the power vacuum and gobble up more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Like what happened in every capitalist crisis in the last 70 years? O.o

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This is very true. It has happened so many times.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One example of the top of my head: the collapse of the USSR.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Another example off the top of my head: the creation of the USSR.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It was me. I was the destroyed system. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yep, violent revolution rarely ends with better conditions for the people

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago

Apart from you very ignorant take:

Who do you think makes revolutions turn violent? The revolutionaries, or the people trying to stop them?