I don't agree. A lot of burn-it-down moments were giant steps backwards. Like: The rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. Mao's Great Leap Forward. The Khmer Rouge. The Iranian Revolution, The Cuban Revolution. The Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution. The Arab Spring. Etc.
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The belief that "revolutions are usually a good thing" by a lot idealists is one of the most ahistorical positions I come across in these arguments.
The other error being something along the lines of "everything is so bad right now, why not roll the dice? Could it be any worse than this?" Which stems from a ridiculous failure of imagination. It is, in fact, not hard at all to imagine counterfactuals where it's MUCH worse.