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> When there's nothing for you why wouldn't you want to just burn it all down? Then you can build a more "fair" system.

Notably, the people who lived under legal oppression for centuries in this country did not take this approach. Instead, they worked inside the system and were able to affect change. The "burn it down" side ended up having its cities literally burned down.



I think most oppression got ended by burning down. I am not aware of too many movements that successfully changed things from the inside.


My comment, like OP, was specifically about the US. Burn it down has a worse track record here than working in the system.




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