There's not going to be a civil war because there is no serious competition among elites. All of their antagonisms are petty shit that will get shelved if the system they all benefit from comes under serious threat.
It's never the elites you need to worry about, if history has taught us anything, it's the young upstart that senses an opportunity with dedicated and loyal people behind him who you should he really terrified by
On the contrary, it's almost always elites. What it sounds like you are talking about here is a budding new elite class. That does present a possibility, but we're not in a situation like that, not yet anyway.
The Chinese communist take over was hardly elites, in fact the elites fucked up so hard is how they took over
Stalin was not an elite, he was a ruthless gangster that just knew how to play the long game
The elites in Vietnam lost in fact an entire superpower lost to insurgents, and actually a good thing they did too since they then went on to take out the Khmer Rouge who were supposed by the elites when they wouldn't stop fucking with their people.
This all depends on what you deem 'elites' as I wouldn't deem any of these guys elites, they weren't raised in a guilded cage or part of an international community before their rise to power.
Before you guys start a semantic argument, I'll just point out that ArchRespawnsAgain was implying that you eventually need some elites and their machinations supporting the revolution. It's not important that the bulldog (Stalin) be a natural born feted elite himself.
There's not going to be a civil war because there is no serious competition among elites. All of their antagonisms are petty shit that will get shelved if the system they all benefit from comes under serious threat.
It's never the elites you need to worry about, if history has taught us anything, it's the young upstart that senses an opportunity with dedicated and loyal people behind him who you should he really terrified by
On the contrary, it's almost always elites. What it sounds like you are talking about here is a budding new elite class. That does present a possibility, but we're not in a situation like that, not yet anyway.
Are you sure as they seem inbred and retarded enough that a new class can easily swoop in and take power.
What would be the material support base of this prospective elite?
The Chinese communist take over was hardly elites, in fact the elites fucked up so hard is how they took over
Stalin was not an elite, he was a ruthless gangster that just knew how to play the long game
The elites in Vietnam lost in fact an entire superpower lost to insurgents, and actually a good thing they did too since they then went on to take out the Khmer Rouge who were supposed by the elites when they wouldn't stop fucking with their people.
This all depends on what you deem 'elites' as I wouldn't deem any of these guys elites, they weren't raised in a guilded cage or part of an international community before their rise to power.
Before you guys start a semantic argument, I'll just point out that ArchRespawnsAgain was implying that you eventually need some elites and their machinations supporting the revolution. It's not important that the bulldog (Stalin) be a natural born feted elite himself.