>History discloses a recurring contradiction. That upheaval, though preached by idealists, is secured by disciplinarians. The lecture hall supplies the language of justice, the barracks and ministries supply the machinery of action. And so it is frequently the heirs of order, stern officers, implacable bureaucrats and country aristocrats who possess the resolution to overturn it, much to the quiet mortification of those who first proclaimed its ideals.
is this true?
It was true in the Russian revolution, where the Red Army was mostly led by Tsarist officers, and much of the Soviet bureaucracy were former Tsarist employees.
>>2714267In this context, he's referring to the various revolutions in the 1800s that ended up only empowering Bonapartist type military leaders and enlightened dictators.
any examples?
>>2714267I mean yeah you need the military and people who can actually run shit in order to take over and have a stable government.
All the more reason that people who dismiss bringing soldiers to the cause are retarded.
Yes. Rhizomatic decentralised lumpen faggots can only chimp out. They can never revolutionise anything.
>>2716618>Rhizomatic what does that mean?
>>2716744It's Deleuzian idiocy for decentralized, spontaneous, etc.
>>2716618You are white and live in a first world country.
>>2716744something like ginger is a rhizome, you can throw a piece of ginger somewhere and it'll grow a whole plant. so rhizomatic means exactly this essentially for organization.
>>2715775NTA but off the top of my head Castro was the illegitimate son of a country aristocrat and Lenin's dad was a serf who got freed by his landowner went to Kazan University would write some meteorology papers and end up becoming a decently high ranked civil servant(active state Councillor) within the public school system. I think its an interesting demonstration of where the Russian empire's superstructure was at that time where you'd have bureaucrats doing modern nation-state stuff like expanding public education receiving hereditary titles from a Monarch.
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The entire psychoanalisis/French Left/postmodernism/Continential Philosophy thing is completely useless bullshit. All of 20th century "social studies" academia could disappear overnight and absolutely nothing would be lost.