http://polizeros.com/2007/04/13/ruling-class-turns-on-itself/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:21:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://polizeros.com/2007/04/13/ruling-class-turns-on-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-132798 dj Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:35:27 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/04/13/ruling-class-turns-on-itself/#comment-132798 The election was a revolution only in the sense of turning around and finding ourselves exactly where we were before. As to the violence of revolutions, they can be nonviolent and result in positive change. But based on the number of violent, unproductive ones of late, the odds are against. The election was a revolution only in the sense of turning around and finding ourselves exactly where we were before. As to the violence of revolutions, they can be nonviolent and result in positive change. But based on the number of violent, unproductive ones of late, the odds are against.

]]> http://polizeros.com/2007/04/13/ruling-class-turns-on-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-132758 Bob Morris Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:01:28 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/04/13/ruling-class-turns-on-itself/#comment-132758 That election was hardly a revolution! And revolutions aren't necessarily violent, witness South Africa and the fall of apartheid. That election was hardly a revolution! And revolutions aren’t necessarily violent, witness South Africa and the fall of apartheid.

]]> http://polizeros.com/2007/04/13/ruling-class-turns-on-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-132756 dj Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:33:02 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/04/13/ruling-class-turns-on-itself/#comment-132756 Didn't we just throw the bums out? Meet the new bums, same as the old bums... I keep hoping that those who say revolution is the only way are wrong. Though based on the revolutions I've seen, odds are we'd end up with bums with guns. Didn’t we just throw the bums out? Meet the new bums, same as the old bums… I keep hoping that those who say revolution is the only way are wrong. Though based on the revolutions I’ve seen, odds are we’d end up with bums with guns.

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