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This is an argument that embraces ideology, while avoiding actual history, which is a dance between evolution & revolution.

US democracy, i.e., leaned heavily on the Magna Carta, parliament, etc. The American Revolution leaned on colonials not having the same rights they had in Britain.

New systems tend to develop in fertile soil, such as the freedom of workers to organize, form unions, etc. If some rights & freedoms aren't widely accepted first, they're difficult to add after the fact. (USSR)