https://www.isegoria.net/2017/11/class-struggle-just-didnt-work-as-a-generator-of-loyalty/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 12 May 2026 23:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2017/11/class-struggle-just-didnt-work-as-a-generator-of-loyalty/comment-page-1/#comment-2594054 Harper's Notes Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:11:18 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42694#comment-2594054 I recently watched Caligula: 1400 Days of Terror. Toward the end the only people he trusted were his slaves he had raised up to power. A casual word from one of them could mean the death of a Senator. In the Ottoman Empire, the Janissaries and others were essentially the extended household slaves of the Ruler. He had total control over them. Over time they came to wield tremendous influence because the ruler trusted them because he was the one who could raise them up from non-status. The Russian case is an interesting twist, but the basic pattern is common across time and space and even in corporate boardrooms.

]]> https://www.isegoria.net/2017/11/class-struggle-just-didnt-work-as-a-generator-of-loyalty/comment-page-1/#comment-2594042 Jim Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:18:38 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42694#comment-2594042 Russian peasants in 1917 and later were not particularly attracted to Bolshevism.

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