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3 min readJun 2, 2025

The Main Class Tension to Drive the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution

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The 1789 French Revolution triggered a bloody, massive genocide until the seizing of power by Napoleon Bonaparte, who proclaimed himself Emperor of France,so putting an end to that stupid, unending civil war. Once in power, Bonaparte began the dissemination of the new anti-nobility and anti-feudal revolutionary values through French army raids accross Europe. The new order ideals were soon recognized as best representing the “bourgeoisie’s” interests.
But stay aware! Not only the nobility lost its huge, absurd, oppressive political and economic power. There have always been, behind every monarchical aristocracy, a large entourage of sycophants, parasites and profiteers of their privileges from the mere proximity to the bien-né, i.e. to the ones whose “blue blood” came by birth.
All kinds of suckers of public money were expelled out of power’s surroundings by the new order, and even if many of them escaped the guillotine, be it for not being so powerful as the people they fawned, be it because of their hidding as mice. What was done thereafter of these highly privileged parasites?
What political force could channel these expelled parasites, in a way that vent the explosive resentment nutured by them against the new order?
In many nineteenth to twentieth century civil wars, such a kind of classes tensions was…

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Marcos Wagner
Marcos Wagner

Written by Marcos Wagner

Philosopher, Psychiatrist, Writer, Father of 4, Grandfather of 3, PhD at the University of São Paulo. www.amazon.com/author/marcoscunha www.amazon.com/dp/B004FG

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