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Violent protest that is not “actual revolution” doesn’t bring change. It just leads to fighting in the streets as the parent said. compare the violent protests
by javagram 7y ago
Violent protest that is not “actual revolution” doesn’t bring change. It just leads to fighting in the streets as the parent said.
compare the violent protests that ignited the Syrian civil war (actual revolution) to the violent protests that resulted in no actual revolution (Rodney King riots, yellow vests in France, etc) to consider the difference, I think.
- baybal2 7y agoThere is little distinction. One leads to another. If you can dig news in well, you know that Syria began with some bakers protesting flour price hike and them roughing up some policemen. A lot of revolutions stared with public disturbance events which had only tangential relation to political context, with Russian revolution being the best known example