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What is the point of a revolution?
Typically, revolutions take the form of organized movements aimed at effecting change—economic change, technological change, political change, or social change. The people who start revolutions have determined the institutions currently in place in society have failed or no longer serve their intended purpose.
What is the bloodiest revolution in history?
The French Revolution
The French Revolution had general causes common to all the revolutions of the West at the end of the 18th century and particular causes that explain why it was by far the most violent and the most universally significant of these revolutions.
Do all revolutions end badly?
Revolutions certainly do end badly, if you are Charles I and we are talking about the English Revolution. More seriously, there has been a tendency to portray the various interregnum regimes as a steady retreat from the revolutionary peak of 1649.
What would the world be like without revolutions?
A world without revolutions, without the threat that such upheaval represents, would be a world where such exploitation has no end. Revolutions certainly do end badly, if you are Charles I and we are talking about the English Revolution.
Is Revolution associated with violence?
FOR MOST people the idea of revolution is closely associated with violence. This message is hammered home in school textbooks, and historical novels and documentaries. There you will find gruesome descriptions of the ‘reign of terror’ of 1793 during the French Revolution.
Do all revolutions begin with rage?
Except that then we would ignore the fact that truly great revolutions, however they end, begin with the rage of those who are exploited beyond tolerance. A world without revolutions, without the threat that such upheaval represents, would be a world where such exploitation has no end.