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Re:Don't Be a Sucker by atomi on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:18PM (#24334988)
> The Nazis got elected, they didn't start a revolution.

Nazi's killed their political opposition, especially Communists.

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Re:Don't Be a Sucker by luckylion on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:41PM (#24335201)
Do you believe that killing political rivals makes a movement a revolution? Is Assad in Syria running a revolution?

The Nazis went wild with murdering everyone they didn't like after they got elected (not that they weren't into violence before, but Hitler's attempt at a revolution failed in '23, Hitler was convicted and went to prison). They got elected on a populist vote, but that's not a revolution. Revolution != getting elected by normal proceedings.

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Re:Don't Be a Sucker by atomi on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:51PM (#24335279)
> ...killing political rivals...

> ...got elected on a populist vote...

To my mind, a violent populist movement is a revolution.

It's not contentious term for me.

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Re:Don't Be a Sucker by Chlorus on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:21PM (#24335024)
20th century Communists, of course, were famously tolerant of their opponents.
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Re:Don't Be a Sucker by atomi on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:34PM (#24335153)
> between 1933–39, with 30,000 communists executed and 150,000 sent to Nazi concentration camps.
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