Ideology, Kulak argues, is first and foremost an organizing principle for violence:
The history of modernity is the history of new ideological constructs arising to create ever more effective war waging coalitions of beneficiaries, ever larger groups of enforcers, and ever larger charnel houses of the losers.
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The various spiritual, moral, and political evolutions and revolutions in the medieval and later absolutist systems allowed larger military forces, and more coherent better trained men, the Protestant reformation itself was a massive catalyst for new ideological coalitions and the confiscation of the property of wealthy monasteries and institutions.
But the real Revolution in ideological warfighting begins with the enlightenment revolutions, and the role radical printers, daily publications, and ideological pamphleteers played to revolutionize the memetic space.
The siren cry of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (Brotherhood)) set off by the enlightenment was their slogan, and their organizing principle, which allowed the immediate overthrow of the Ancien Regime in France and the aging decayed fuedal aristocracy and its bizzare bureaucracy.
Of course almost imediately the ideologies changed upon attaining power.
Out of the cry of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, came three world changing national revolutions.
Like the Judgement of Paris, the Peoples of the west each chose a Goddess.
The American Revolution, Corresponding to the idea of Liberty. Obviously.
The French Revolution, which despite its tri-color flag and tri-value slogan very quickly devolved into egalitarian terror.
And finally Otto Von Bismarck’s unification of Germany was the final Fraternal “revolution” in the western world.