• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Complete purges are rare. Usually usurpers will marry into it to legitimize rule. And even when they don’t it’s usually the worst (moral) middle class/lesser nobility/military leaders to take the reins. To our knowledge one servile war has succeeded and doing so has left a nation impoverished to this day.

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        8 months ago

        Kind of weird to call out Haiti specifically in this situation, especially considering all the ratfucking they went through at the behest of the imperial powers.

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          8 months ago

          Sorry if I didn’t explicitly say that yeah, when the poor take power the rich led other countries fuck them to hell