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What Dickens understood about revolution and modern politics has forgotten

The collapse of an unjust order does not guarantee that what follows will be more just. Grievance can become vengeance; the crowd that rises against arbitrary power can itself begin to exercise power arbitrarily

6 Oct 2026 11:18 pm