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    Pressures on the system from destabilization are threats of revolution, hence revolutionary pressure.

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      Do you think a democratic bureaucratic fully checked and balanced revolution would succeed in overthrowing the structure?

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            USSR, Cuba, PRC, etc. Read theory and read history books. You’re interested in neither though.

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              USSR and PRC had really bad checks and balances since they let dictators consolidate power and form cults of personality. You really think those are good examples of your point? Have you read entirely different histories than I have? Which books do you recommend then?

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                    Elementary Principles of Philosophy, by Georges Politzer! Extremely straightforward and fantastic introduction to Dialectical and Historical Materialism, in a manner that builds from the beginnings of Idealism, Materialism, and Dialectics, and how over time these changed and built off each other alongside science, technology, and Mode of Production.

                    Great work, by the way!

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                  Soviet Russia and China were nominally a democracies, but both were controlled by individuals without checks. Stallin and Mau respectively. Again, what history books are you reading that is saying otherwise?

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                    Soviet Russia and China were nominally a democracies, but both were controlled by individuals without checks.

                    Do you have any proof of this? Historical evidence is much the opposite, as the sources I have linked show you.

                    Stallin and Mau respectively.

                    Stalin was not without checks, nor did he control the entire USSR, according to historical evidence including internal CIA memos. Mao was forced out of power due to his failures with the Cultural Revolution, directly proving that checks not only existed, but were used.

                    Again, what history books are you reading that is saying otherwise?

                    The ones I have linked.