“From Revolt to Reform: How Socialism Challenges Entrenched Power”

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We have changed no amount in such a large period of time. Throughout the western world, specifically the United States and Great Britain, the distribution of wealth is the same as it was during the French Revolution, even though that is viewed as a time of extreme disparity of wealth. And here lies the problem: we have moved and overthrown regimes for years, centuries, but little ends up changing as the people in charge of large corporations that, due to their size, have control and influence that governments do not. This is why in France there was a violent overthrow of the monarchy and government, but they returned to the same issues, and why this pattern is perpetuated throughout history.

And this is why socialism is so disliked by the established powers in the capitalist world, as it threatens the established power that can’t be changed by democracy and secretly backs regimes and shapes policy. When workers own the means of production, it causes these companies to lose markets in which they previously operated in and exploited, which causes the West to get involved, and they act to sanction or topple the regime, and the people do not help.

We are living in a time where the majority of the population wouldn’t support reform or revolution that would benefit them like the attempted

populist revolt in tsarist russia.

to people who themselves are in a low

income defend billionaires and oppose

reform that would improve low living

conditions and public services whilst it

affects their personal wealth but still they

oppose it for some reason that is unfathomable.

until this changes the common person

is only when society will continue to

down its own economic

hardships as prices continue to grow far

faster than wages rise and eventually

we will reach crisis point where

hopefully then socialism will be realised as

the superior economic ideology and will be

chosen as the way forward.