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It's intriguing to note that making revolutionary demands remains in fashion amongst the Western intelligentsia - this is just one of a stream of publications one could point to - but none of them answer the fundamental question of how a  fully socially-transformative "revolution" is supposed to achieve its goals in a complex and globally-dependent economy without starting by causing total collapse, mass starvation, and a spiral of violence.That, after all, is what the great social revolutions of history all did.