The French Revolution was not a peasant revolt, it was a movement of the upper-middle class. Nobody with money is interested in changing the government right now.
We are far, far beyond the wealth inequality that spurned the French Revolution and yet, here we sit.
Soggy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
whalesnrainbows@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’d attribute this to two main factors:
The wealth inequality we’re dealing with has a higher ceiling (and higher floor) than the wealth inequality in pre-revolution France. We’re poor and hurting financially, but most of us are still able survive day-to-day without viscerally feeling the effects of our poverty.
The internet keeps us apart. Pre-internet, people built communities, coalitions, and armies much more effectively because they weren’t so isolated in their homes, and so paralyzed by screens.
Surp@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
They also had the advantage of surprise which you can’t really have with everything being tracked
whalesnrainbows@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
True, it is much harder than it used to be to catch the oppressor class off guard.
But given how hard they work to discourage us from even nonviolently protesting, I suspect that they understand that once we truly collectively achieve class consciousness, it’s over for them.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
And ruthless efficiency