• someoneelse@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    Let’s put an extreme example. There is a regime that is very top heavy. The assassination of that person will destroy the regime and change it by something else. That would be a revolutionary act, since it would topple a whole political system and replace it by something else. Now let’s assume a single person carried it out.

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      37 minutes ago

      This example is a fantasy, though, and isn’t how society works. This is why theory is necessary, not just vibes.

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        35 minutes ago

        Similar things have happened, although I don’t know if any by a single person but it is not unthinkable that they might, so the hypothetical remains valid.

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            4 minutes ago

            there have been several assassinations of heads of state by individual people and several assassinations that have led to regime changes, so it is valid.