"A history that prioritizes spectacular but brief violence against elites while downplaying millennia of elite violence against everyone else isn’t really history; it’s propaganda."
"A history that prioritizes spectacular but brief violence against elites while downplaying millennia of elite violence against everyone else isn’t really history; it’s propaganda."
kolektiva.social HeavenlyPossum (@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social)
I’d be remiss if I failed to note that my correspondent’s argument is not only empirically wrong, but also deeply morally repugnant. All of these systems—American chattel slavery, the feudalism of ancien regime France or czarist Russia, modern capitalism—are deeply, intrinsically violent. *Even if*...
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…I mean right.The problem is the winning party, be them the elites or the revolutionaries, tend to cement themselves into the position of power with a likewise show off force against the lower classes.
That's why the violence is brief.