Originally Posted by Isbjørn (Post 1774310)

What about the Paris Commune, run by the workers?

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1774274)

Violent revolutions are retarded in general, communist or otherwise. Having your country be taken over by people who are A.) good at killing ****, and B.) predisposed to being disenfranchised and reacting with extreme solutions, probably is not the best idea in the world.

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1774586)

I've gone over that more than once at length and don't feel like explaining why the American Revolution is not a revolution in the sense that pretty mugh any other violent revolution is a revolution.

Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff (Post 1774703)

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1774704)

TL;DR: Same basic power structures and politicians governed the country before and after the revolution, unlike Russia, China, Cuba, etc. The main change was that the "foreign" occupiers had been expelled.

Originally Posted by Ki (Post 1774708)

I hate this country.

Originally Posted by mordwyr (Post 1774714)

Here's more about that.