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What are some of the recent examples of a violent large-scale redistribution of wealth?

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There is a bit of a difference betweenthe two revolutions. The French revolution did not touch the bourgeouisie or the peasantry. The Russian one wiped out both. – Felix Goldberg Jan 13 at 21:39
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False premise: "Both were aimed at eliminating a whole class of people, the aristocrats, and redistributing the wealth and power towards the poor." – Samuel Russell Jan 14 at 2:05
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Arguably, most of the poor didn't gain all that much wealth or power as a result of the revolution. – DVK Jan 14 at 11:47
@SamuelRussell Do you find both parts of that false, or just one? (the "eliminating a class" and the "redistributing wealth") – romkyns Jan 14 at 13:45
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@romkyns: you're going to have an uphill battle to argue that revolutions have intentionality in the manner that you did. – Samuel Russell Jan 14 at 19:29
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