And causality is reversible. That reversal is called revisionism. On the other hand, to change power is to make a revolution. Compromises are revisionistic. Revolution, however, is the sum total of a long series of revisions, the violent overturn of progressive revisions.
Society becomes a universe devoid of a center.
Everything is periphery. There is no longer the heart of anything. Only romantic terrorists of the Red Brigades thought that the state had a heart and that the heart was vulnerable. On the other hand, multinational empires exist today. They are not an invention of protesters or terrorists.