Oh please, get a fucking grip on reality for fuck sake. Those populations starved for years under insanely despotic regimes.
Today even poor people have too much to eat (look at obesity rates) and leave tvs behind when they loose their house cause it isn't worth taking with them. Your computer would have been worth fighting a war over 200 years ago.
To suggest that we are anything close to a "sea of desperate, furious peasants who have nothing left to lose and desire to see your head on a stick" while the peasents have access to better food, medical care, running water, communications, transportation and entertainment that the Sun King ever dreamed of shows how crazy that argument is.