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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.

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.