http://trans_mag.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] trans-mag.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] funeralcrasher 2006-12-06 07:00 pm (UTC)

The serfs of the middle ages were thoroughly oppressed, economically, and kept in ignorance of just about everything beyond what they needed to know to survive and serve their masters. They didn't know what they were missing. By contrast, the French lower and middle classes, leading up to the Revolution there, were acutely aware of what they once had and had lost. The Russian lower and middle classes thought they would be better off under Marxism, but they learned too late that the new system worked even worse than the old one, for them at least. The pendulum swings. The Soviet Union itself eventually fell apart, in 1991, under *economic* pressure, not political or social pressure... The overall lesson for power-hungry greedy rich bastards here is, do whatever you want, but keep the peasants *ignorant* and make sure they have *just enough* to eat...

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