Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago[Points to the history of Britain]
[Further points to the Pink Floyd reference]
Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago[Points to the history of Britain]
[Further points to the Pink Floyd reference]
ztwhixsemhwldvka@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The history of Britain has a moment of near revolution with the electoral reform in the mid 19th century. Also the suffragettes. Also multiple slave revolts in the empire.
And the Pink Floyd lyric is a classic that everyone who just discovered Pink Floyd resonates with. Throwing it in off handledly into a senseless article with no real analysis or thought just seems to me to try to add profundity to something mediocre.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
None of that resulted in the overthrow of any government. Electoral reform was carried out by the government, and the Suffragette militant campaign ended in failure in 1914.
ztwhixsemhwldvka@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But these things influenced political decisions. It’s just that the British state back then was wise to this. Now it’s not so clear which makes revolution if not an inevitability, then at least a possibility.