>The Bolsheviks, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, and a series of other groups and people engaged in "decisive and collective action" and it didn't turn out very well. So

>The Bolsheviks, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, and a series of other groups and people engaged in "decisive and collective action" and it didn't turn out very well. So did the Catalonians, the Americans, the Germans, the French, and the Haitians. It's unwise to paint all revolutions (or even collective action) with the same brush.