Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "West's neoliberal 'age of abundance' is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home" video.

A never-to-be-repeated accident of history. And the French revolution didn't destroy a system of oppression — the monarchy — it merely replaced it with a new form of oppression — the republic. The nobility of French feudalism was replaced by the haute bourgeoisie of capitalism. Also, you mustn't forget the counter-revolution of 1815 when the monarchy was briefly restored by the victors of Waterloo, or that none other than Bonaparte betrayed the republican values of the French revolution by declaring himself an emperor.
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@fun_ghoul Eventually, yes, by certain metrics and looked at from within the capitalist paradigm, but for most of the time that capitalism has existed the benefits for the ordinary person were haphazard and limited. Only from the 1850's onward was there any significant rise in living standards, life expectancy and general overall improvements to the conditions of ordinary people.
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You assume there exists some kind of effective political or social mechanism by which the majority can effect change, or even know and would be able to disseminate a coherent idea what that change would look like.
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@fun_ghoul Really‽
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@fun_ghoul And good bye to you too.
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