Utopianism and idealism have long plagued the left, as Marx and Engels pointed out a century and a half ago. But these days, the leftists are tilting at wind...
This is actually quite good; addresses the western left's obsession with purity and martyrdom without producing a single useful result.
I think there is also a strong element to the fact that an industrialised society finds it easier to suppress revolutions as it's easier to monitor and control things with the means to afford vast state security forces and a population that is largely all in one place
I think there is also a strong element to the fact that an industrialised society finds it easier to suppress revolutions as it's easier to monitor and control things with the means to afford vast state security forces and a population that is largely all in one place