Has there ever been a time in history when the ruling class has been overthrown WITHOUT violence?

If so, when and where?

If not, then isn't everyone who insists on absolute nonviolence actually advocating surrender to the ruling class forever?

#Politics #Revolution #RulingClass #GeneralStrike

“Buried in the #budget papers is a revelation that Labor plans to impose a minimum effective #tax rate of 51 per cent on distributions from #discretionary #trusts to so-called bucket #companies.

The move is aimed squarely at the “hundreds of thousands” of people who use such strategies to split income with their #families

Who has a family trust?

This is the new “Franking Credit” squeals from the Pearl clutching set. Isn’t it?

#AusPol / #RulingClass / #wealth / #power <https://archive.md/t2rFf> / (paywall) <https://afr.com/wealth/investing/how-labor-is-killing-family-trusts-starting-with-the-bucket-company-20260513-p5zw9r>

“Our suicidal march began long before Donald #Trump and his bizarre court of #buffoons, #sycophants, #grifters and #Christianfascists took power. It began when the #rulingclass … set out to harvest the country and empire for personal profit.” open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

America’s Suicide Pact
America’s Suicide Pact

America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.

The Chris Hedges Report
“Self-serving, Amoral, and exploitative!”

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#KarlMarx is the most consequential #economist of the past two centuries, and his work as a #sociologist identified the struggle against #oppression as a key motor of history. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1883 he died in London. Meanwhile, the #RulingClass keeps adapting and lives on.
From Epstein to Bezos, the Ruling Class Is Rotten to the Core

Let this week be yet another reminder that plutocrats are a threat to democracy, not its saviors.

The Nation

The author of this article, Daniel Richman, is part of the evil ruling class. The NYT is state media for the ruling class.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opinion/epstein-files-justice-department.html

#rulingclass
#evilrulingclass
#epsteinfiles
#freeiran
#freepalestine

Opinion | The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released

Putting millions of pages online is a sign of institutional failure.

The New York Times

#MasteringTheUniverse: The Obscene Wealth If the #RulingClass, What They Do With Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them More.

by #RobertLarson

#HaymarketBooks.org @haymarketbooks

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2281-mastering-the-universe

Mastering the Universe

haymarketbooks.org

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #workingclass #contentment #disrespectability #enjoyment #enough #hardwork #idleness #industry #labor #makingmoney #recreation #rulingclass

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Essay (1877-07), "An Apology for Idlers," Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36 | WIST Quotations

Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to…

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As Epstein Files Turn Into Partisan Circus, Institutional Power Protects Its Own

Even though Jeffrey Epstein is gone, the machinery that facilitated his crimes remains largely untouched.

https://murica.website/2026/02/as-epstein-files-turn-into-partisan-circus-institutional-power-protects-its-own/

As Epstein Files Turn Into Partisan Circus, Institutional Power Protects Its Own – The USA Potato