I meant: Is the alternative - prosecuting coup-makers - communism?

Sure there was an element of pragmatism, but this pragmatic response to would-be dictators are so much more common in response to coup-makers that are within the elite, then when it comes to revolutionaries that comes from outside the elite. So I agree with the assessment that it is class solidarity at work.

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