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Curious about this part
I know you say "class" specifically here. But is the idea that this is true more generally? Because a unified republican party of people who hate each other on certain topics but who built a coalition around a single figure beat a disjointed set of groups who didn't do the same.
What makes cross class coalition bad or ineffective where uniting across ideologies on specifics seems to actually work?
Is it a line in the sand kind of thing? "Everybody on this side of the line unite or die ffs. Everybody on that side, you're the ones we're uniting against".
Is that the idea? The upper class(s) can never be part of our group because they're the ones we're unifying against?
(Kind of thinking out loud here. Am I on the right track?)
Consider the context that World War 1's conclusion left multiple imperial monarchies in ashes. The kind of government in question is one that is directly being sanctioned by aristocratic monarchy. The bourgeioise were and were working with kings and noble families as a matter of status quo, who had just spent years sending entire townships to the meatgrinder.