S01E07 A cautionary fable

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Ma Zhe believes that it is new things that overthrow old things.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, China has experienced one dynasty after another. The decline of a dynasty is often due to the degeneration of the ruling class. However, whether it is Sagara ministers or commoners who overthrow the tyranny and sit in the golden palace, they have become new oppression of the people. For thousands of years, history is unparalleled.

After the peasant class overthrew the landlord class, a new landlord class was created, and after the lower class drove out the upper class, the new upper class was created. Can the peasants who overthrew the landlord really achieve that everyone has their own land? No, he will be the new landlord. Will the workers who have overthrown the capitalists stop extracting the surplus value of others? No, it will only be more handy to extract.

In the original social form, people within a class would flow, but the class would not collapse. Feudal society cannot escape the landlord class and peasant class, and capitalist society cannot escape the bourgeoisie and proletariat. It was never the peasantry that overthrew the landlords, but the bourgeoisie. Then what will overthrow the bourgeoisie? Is it pure worker power? I think we will have the answer when higher social formations emerge.

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