The Enlightenment-era sage Immanuel Kant asserted that revolution was an inevitable step towards a higher ethical foundation for society. It was an erudite socio-historical interpretation — at the risk of dragging bathos into darkly flippant realms — of the making-an-omelette/breaking-eggs conundrum.
The omelette in question, though, is not always one of tasty egalitarianism — China’s Cultural Revolution led to — were looted, damaged and destroyed in pursuit of all-round bliss--hegemony.
