• @bouh@lemmy.world
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    The effect of examples is not to underestimate. That’s how they keep workers in check, and that’s how guillotining a king got 2 centuries of democracy.

    • WabiSabiPapi
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      1 year ago

      incredibly simplistic perspective, and intellectually dishonest; we traded monarchy for a dictatorship of the capital owning class.