I kinda don't like this whole rebellion thing being caused by some random third party and not, y'know, an organic result of a genuine class conscious taking form.
don't look up what happened in russia from 1917 to 1922
Ofercrissakes, like the Russian revolution was the only example of class struggle in history. Here's a clue: Unless you're very very rich, nearly every good thing you have, you have because of successful class struggle. Less than a 12 hour day? Class struggle. The weekend? Class struggle. Wages good enough to let you afford whatever you're using to post stuff on the interwebs? Class struggle. The vote? Class struggle. Look up the history of trade unions, or the Chartist movement, sometime.
Of course a lot of the good stuff class struggle got us has been getting taken away lately . . . because of class warfare from the other direction.
I think they were referring to the "third party component" coming into play because a large part of the October Revolution actually happening was due to the Germany's assistance in getting Lenin (and a whole other bunch of other socialist revolutionaries) back into Russia earlier that year (of 1917) after his exile from Russia since the end of the 19th century. Germany doing this in an attempt to destabilise the already falling apart Romanov Dynasty (which it did) and have a new government sign to a more favourable peace treaty to end hostilities (which happens in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk). Details might be a little suspect as this was what I recalled from a unit from Mod History in high school and a couple extra supplementary details/checks with the good old google. Just an interesting tidbit of one of the biggest turning points for history in the 20th century.
Or this went completely over my head and they're just referring to the Bolsheviks as the third party and separate to the actual working classes/peasants, with them mostly instigating everything up to the end of the Russian Civil War since the above commenter mentioned the period of 1917 - 1922.
Besides history, it's interesting to see quite a few people saying they're dropping this due to the direction change from slice-of-life to a more politically driven/drama plot. Obviously people read what they want to read, but personally, even though I like slice-of-life a lot as a genre, many of those fall into stagnation and end up sort of melding with each other in my memory as I struggle to differentiate between them due to usage of common events. Of course, all genres have their tropes which they use but slice-of-life tends to be the most narrow in scope and hence repetitive. So for me, this change of direction is quite refreshing and has piqued my interest towards this series much more than before (even though I knew it would go into that direction at some point, although not this early honestly).
to be fair there's a big difference between the general idea of outside forces meddling in class struggle, which is always going to happen in the messy real world, and depicting that struggle as the result of 'outside agitators' instigating antagonism between classes, which is usually an ahistorical and ideologically centrist position.
with that said, this manga has already established the pre-existing class antagonisms, so i don't really think it's particularly guilty in this regard.
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