Morning Sun

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"As Orwell observed, most revolutions involve merely an exchange of elites, while the bulk of a society's power structures remain in place. On one hand, this thought is depressing, as it implies that a true redistribution of power and wealth is essentially impossible. But revolutionaries from Lenin onwards have discovered that a measure of realpolitik is necessary if a state is not to completely collapse under the impact of dramatic change. China's cultural revolution stands somewhat in opposition to this orthodoxy, a revolution that effectively sought to destroy all institutions in w..."