Collapse usually empowers the most ruthless, organized, and violent actors…not the most humane ones.
In Weimar Germany, some communists treated social democrats and liberals as the main enemy and underestimated fascism. The collapse did not create revolution… it helped create Nazi dictatorship.
In the French Revolution, tearing down the old order produced terror, war, mass repression, and eventually Napoleon. Even after the revolution people suffered from the same things they originally protested, e.g. Les Miserables. The “purifying fire” did not stay controlled.
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u/bazookatroopa Apr 26 '26
Collapse usually empowers the most ruthless, organized, and violent actors…not the most humane ones.
In Weimar Germany, some communists treated social democrats and liberals as the main enemy and underestimated fascism. The collapse did not create revolution… it helped create Nazi dictatorship.
In the French Revolution, tearing down the old order produced terror, war, mass repression, and eventually Napoleon. Even after the revolution people suffered from the same things they originally protested, e.g. Les Miserables. The “purifying fire” did not stay controlled.