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<blockquote data-quote="911" data-source="post: 1150080" data-attributes="member: 11221">Power is concentrated at the top, in the capitals. You don't have to have deep grassroots support in order to effect regime change/revolutions. If you take over the levers (executive, banks, media, top army brass) and have enough capital to fund the upper and middle echelons, you've got it done. The reason communist regimes in Russia and China had to kill tens of millions is that their popular support wasn't strong, they had to cull and terrorize the masses that they pretend to represent. In France, the revolution faded back into a traditionalist, nationalist regime of Napoleon. History is written by the winners, so these revolutionary events will invariably be portrayed as organic popular movements in the history books and in popular culture, it's hard for me to challenge that notion here, but if you do your research you will find out that things weren't as they are portrayed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="911, post: 1150080, member: 11221"] Power is concentrated at the top, in the capitals. You don't have to have deep grassroots support in order to effect regime change/revolutions. If you take over the levers (executive, banks, media, top army brass) and have enough capital to fund the upper and middle echelons, you've got it done. The reason communist regimes in Russia and China had to kill tens of millions is that their popular support wasn't strong, they had to cull and terrorize the masses that they pretend to represent. In France, the revolution faded back into a traditionalist, nationalist regime of Napoleon. History is written by the winners, so these revolutionary events will invariably be portrayed as organic popular movements in the history books and in popular culture, it's hard for me to challenge that notion here, but if you do your research you will find out that things weren't as they are portrayed. [/QUOTE]

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