anarchists (communists) strategy to overthrow current order…
anarchists (communists) strategy to overthrow current order:
1. winning short-term support of the people by redistributing the wealth
2. long-term support by promising new positions of power to supporters after the revolution is won
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1) is 2). The promise of handouts is in itself promising a position of power. It's a perpetual guarantee that's only contingent on whether recipients can do basic electoral math and agree that they themselves will become a collusive faction.
However it's a difficult extraction engine to get started. The conditions require a very classist society, otherwise promises of a meritocratic system can fracture the collusion, as even populists sell out to the idea of 20% mobility – but when 5% or less.