• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    I mean the early 1900s were a bit before my time… There’s a reason why the police became militarized. Mob violence isn’t the threat it used to be. A revolution nowadays would need to be a lot more coordinated and probably have to be more of an insurgency.

    • schmorp@slrpnk.net
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      5 days ago

      Yes, before you mob up please study early 20th century history, especially the worker uprisings. Not easy to find in the history books, because eww workers (as we know history is written by great men) Working Class History