"Capitalism's class and national and oppression have ensured that revolutions have threatened it from the start, not just since 1917, when , at once socialist and , began the long, still ongoing process of ushering it out of the history of one country after another. Such revolutionary threats early on made counter-revolution a major preoccupation of capitalist states. From its beginnings, capitalism has faced populations resisting in its homelands and imperial subordination outside them."