> On Feb 27, 2015, at 9:33 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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> That said, according to Trotsky, the cossacks refused to beat up the workers after a certain point in 1917.
That's when a regime collapses. Zizek tells the story of the refusal of the Shah's cops to fire on demonstrators as marking the end of his reign.