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From: “Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg” by Kate Evans.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What on earth is a top-down revolution? Wouldn't that just be a coup?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yup, also called a bourgeois revolution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The idea is to reverse the pyramid of power, so that the working class, which is usually at the bottom, becomes the top and the ruling class gets at the bottom. That way it would break any hierarchies