Reply #71: Violence is not rewarding. Revolutions are awful, and anyone who's seen one would agree

[AlienGirl]

Revolutions and civil wars are awful. They are a bloody, terrifying business, in which no one has the leisure of being confident that she or her children will survive. They cannot simply be gotten out of the way of: they come into your town, and heaven help you if you don't have the resources to flee. You say you want to attack the super-rich, but in a violent revolution the super-rich would have had the ability to flee; your attack will fall, not upon their heel, but where their heel has been. With the tip-top upper echelon gone, where will all that rage go? Upon the petite bourgeoisie, your slightly-richer neighbors, who still work for their wages (rather than belonging to that class whose money labors for them)?

After a civil war you are left with broken infrastructure, broken people, broken civil trust, and a lingering "everyone for himself" mentality. I suspect that's the last thing you want to do, but that is the reality at the ground level of ordinary civilians, upon whose backs civil wars are fought.

Tucker