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"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)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.