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Originally Posted by Landroval
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The standard procedure for subverting a powerful nation that cannot be assailed because of the might of its solidarity, is to amass the dissidents and outsiders of that otherwise unassailable system and champion them to your cause by whatever persuasive rhetoric is necessary, so as to unravel their solidarity from the disenfranchised outliers within their ranks, while ideally securing that power for yourself.
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In the "18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," a brief 1851 essay on the nature of revolution, Marx explained how what you call "disenfranchised outliers" -- for him, his term is "lumpen proletariat" -- were pitted against aspiring petit bourgeoisie -- what we would call the middle class -- in order to stage a restoration of the French monarchy that was otherwise completely laughable.
The essay was intended to prove how class conflict can be used to put a fool -- "a grotesque and average personality" to use Marx's words -- in power.
Class conflict is multi-valent. Both the "outliers" and the petite bourgeoisie got taken for a shitty ride.
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