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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
The rulers deciding "we're going to do something different from now on" is not a revolt.
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Except that Centrum was not the rulers. The rulers were an Anglo-French aristocracy. Centrum was a military-technical cabal.
"Centrum perceives itself as a radical break with the past"
That suggests a rather revolutionary attitude in and of itself.
"A typical Centran knows rather less about his own history than a typical 20th century American."
It's quite plausible that Centrans don't recognise how similar their society is to communism (any kind) because a) they have no real education of history, b) probably even less of political theory, and c) their own history never had any communist revolution, let alone a communist state, and d) it's questionable if they even had a Karl Marx.
Actually, given the dates, it's conceivable that alt-Karl Marx's theories may have ended up being instrumental in some parts of Centran thinking, such as the idea that a stable state is needed for the good of everyone, and that each should work according to their ability. Marx did after all spend a considerable amount of time living in London (1818-1883).