The misuse of the word "revolution" when people talk about the "American Revolution" has done a great disservice to overall understanding of the term. (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Revolution is not when you exchange one group of landlords for a different set. It is a total upending of systems. That is the true meaning. Soc dems and reformists think we can just change the window dressing and call it systemic. "If the new lord is better than the old lord we can return to the happiness of feudalism." What a terrible thing to believe.

We must reclaim this term. These terms belong to the people not a bunch of centuries dead slaveholding jackasses in powdered wigs who didn't change a goddamn thing.

Just something I've been thinking about lately.

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

you're mixing up the old ruling class and the one resultant from the bourgeois revolutions. the bourgeois were not the ruling class at the outset, and became it through the violent process of revolution.