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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A coup is a revolutionary movement with mass support? Are all revolutions coups?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A coup is the violent overthrow of a government, so if the revolution is violent, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

That's a bit goofy, but then I will amend the original statement with clarity: revolutionaries do not necessarily support random individual movements, but mass revolutionary action among the workers.