Re: The Black Death was cataclysmic but didn't produce Utopia back in the 14th century Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on March 12, 2019, 4:25 pm, in reply to "The Black Death was cataclysmic but didn't produce Utopia back in the 14th century"
Revolutions aren't 'won' by the organised. I think that's what the organised like to think, but it's a lot more complicated than that. It's true though, one doesn't need anywhere near a majority for a revolution to be successful. All it nees is enough people and that varies enormously. 10% seems about right. The French and Russian revolutions were only possible, I'd argue, because the centre, the state, had become so weak, for a variety of reasons, that huge swathes of people no longer saw the system as working or legitimate, and, crucially, weren't perpared to support the system when it was challenged by the revolutionary minority.
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