Workers mobilized against class enemies rather than for abstract justice

Evidence

But in this he was successful only because the wrongdoers happened to be the inveterate enemies of the people ever since the Revolution, namely, the aristocracy and the clergy. It was against the rich and the clergy, not for the republic, not for justice and freedom that the workers finally took to the streets. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 323

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships