Wait and see the next time YOU'RE homeless, unemployed or starving.
The state will do nothing for me, so theories that it will are irrelevant to my situation.
Politicians never learn the lessons of history because they're too interested in the lessons of the ballot box.
Studying history and trying to influence policy on that basis are fine pursuits but they run up against a stone wall when the government is alienated from the citizenry (largely now the case in both the US and the EU).