Tuesday, February 15, 2011

BBC News - How revolutions happen: Patterns from Iran to Egypt

BBC News - How revolutions happen: Patterns from Iran to Egypt: "Revolutions can be short and bloody, or slow and peaceful. Each is different, though there are recurring patterns - including some that were on show in Egypt.

Trotsky once remarked that if poverty was the cause of revolutions, there would be revolutions all the time because most people in the world were poor. What is needed to turn a million people's grumbling discontent into a crowd on the streets is a spark to electrify them."

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