I agree with sibling, but: > As people got educated and had more free time, they may have found other venues to communicate and exchange ideas. The point is t

I agree with sibling, but: > As people got educated and had more free time, they may have found other venues to communicate and exchange ideas. The point is that in this particular case it was the coffee shops. They were popular, they were profitable, they were lead by “literate people” (something to think about). It’s interesting to think about why this thing happened in these kinds of places. There are other examples of revolutions instead being triggered from religious places, from work places, from battlefields... the “non-uniqueness” is debatable. Even just the tidbit about state power being unable to outright shut these down. There are so many axes you can go down when thinking about it. There’s the power struggle itself, both between state and capital and between state and the people (which ones though?). There are difficulties of empire. There’s so much. Good stuff is available here