can peasants make a successful revolution?
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History teaches us that it cannot be done. They will lack the skills to run stable administration, even if they do then it will at the expense of freedom of activities and thought.
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1. uniquely impressive life expectancy gains (40 to 65) via widespread equitable social welfare policies   2. institutions necessary for a green revolution in agriculture that spread throughout China from 1965-1983  3. a basic industrialization foundation (albeit grossly imbalanced towards heavy industry and military) for reformers to build on  4. unintentionally stimulating later democracy debates and movements by invoking the Paris Commune ideals in the early Cultural Revolution (ideals he soon betrayed).  \n\nThese achivements have to be balanced against the 1959-61 famine, imprisonment of real and supposed dissenters, two major episodes of state violence, and the elimination of most non-propagandistic art, literature, film, etc.
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The idea is that you can rise from your own economical class to an even higher social and economic class.  The idea is that hard work will indeed guarantee success in our country because we have the freedom to do so.\n\nWhile many countries have a caste system, we are without that.  People who are impoverished can go to college in our country.  People can intermarry someone of a different social class.  People can even choose to live above their means and live within a class they virtually can't pay for.  It's the freedom we have that makes this somewhat true.\n\nEach individual's dream is different however.
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The initial premise for the question, a group of perfect people,does not exist.Various communist leaders have recognised the problem but have come nowhere near solving the problem of how to create the perfect man to fit into their theoretically perfect societies.\n\nIn "Communism y el hombre" Che roughly said that "to build communism simultaneously with its material base, we must also build the new man. He will represent neither the ideas and values of our own decadent and corrupt society nor those of the past.... it will take a long time."\n\nPol Pot, having spent part of his youth in a Theravadaian monastery, believed in nihilism ie just as an individual needs to purge himself of selfishness and indeed of self in order to reach perfection, so to build a socialist society it was firstly neccesary to destroy the old society. However, re-education, the abolition of money and transporting most of the population to the country for agricultural work did not solve the problem. Cambodian agricultural production actually fell as people produced only enough for their own needs and the factories didn't work because most of the people needed to run them were dead or working in the country.The regime lasted for less than three years.\n\nNo man made system is ever going to work anything like perfectly or produce anything like a perfect man. The only perfect man I know is Jesus, and as I get to apply His cross to my life and to know Him more intimately, so I can become more like Him.
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it could work!\n\nbut only until you got human beings involved.\n\nthere are no utopias...
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Actually... while I agree education is key. Revolution over the extremist "leadership" that has iron fisted control is a necessity. I fully believe the common Iranian people are not as extremist as those who have the reigns in that country. Given the chance, the Iranian people like everyone else, would prefer a free government and society with peace at heart. To obtain that peace and freedom, it will take action though. Freedom is not just given. Freedom is earned and won. Blood is freedom's stain, and many times it takes fighting and revolution to win freedom. The extremist and hate filled people in charge in Iran will not give up their iron-fisted control just because they are asked.
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Not if they keep taxing the rich and feeding the poor, 'til there are no rich no more. You need money to become a superpower. In other words with all the socialism going on and stifling the free market, they aren't likely to become a 'super power'.
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Revolutions usually have some kind of organized political power behind them (a party or an organized group of people with a political agenda). Events in France can affect the results of elections next year, but I believe there will be no disruption in a democratic process
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The economy and middle class are indeed growing at a fast pace in China, but the majority of Chinese still live the way they did 30 or 40 years ago.  I think the chinese government is trying to slowly convert the country into a capitalist - or at least a french-style socialist - society without making the mistakes Gorbachev made in USSR 15-20 years ago.  Time will tell if they succeed, though there are rumors of increasing discontent in the rural areas.  The same thing happened in the US in 1920s - right before the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.  Hopefully China will not suffer the same fate.
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Like most governments, there are four spectrums you have to cover to make your country, the people and the overall government successful and happy: Military, Economical, Social, and the Will of the people. Nepal's King (after sacking parliament) instated a communistic regime of which the people had little to no say in what happened. Unless you can balance the 4 spectrums, you won't be successful, and in Nepal's case, it was the Social and Will of the people that suffered. Also to note that there are rebels who also wanted to instate a communistic regime of which the people didn't want. Now that democracy has been restored, it will take the country as a whole to fulfill those 4 areas, not just a King. We'll see how it goes from there.
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Yes "The French Revolution brought many changes among all four social classes" is an excellent thesis. It clearly states what your paper will be about. The only thing i would change is the fact that you need to be more specific, for example state what the four social classes are.
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The bourgeoisie could be termed revolutionary in the sense that this class overturned the feudal society and took dominance over the previously dominant classes (nobility and clergy). This is stated in chapter 1 of the manifesto.\n\nThe proletariat is revolutionary in the sense that it will overturn the social order once more and create a communist order.\n\nRevolution is not so much the battle of one group against the other. Marx and Engels recognise it as a SOCIAL FORCE that drives history and social development.
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you need much more than some yahoo answers  \nwe don't understand your politics in your country because we don't live there,and for REVOLUTION you need something like an army
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no, stupid uneducated idiots following the orders of a zealot that hates the usa did this. they were brainwashed with religion, or rather a terrorist philosophy, called islam\n\nbrainwashing is possible and very easy if you keep the peasants stupid
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Every country needs a revolution. Now.\n\nFor everyone who says 'we need to vote our way to change'. When in history has this ever worked? No matter how 'good' a politician is, once they are voted in they become corrupt and kneel at the feet of whoever is giving them power. (Never the people.)\n\n"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
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How revolutionary you ask? Think about it for a second. The most powerful and most well respected army and navy in the entire world is not only defeated but defeated by farmers and other workers not soldiers. It was so un heard of and so remarkable.
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Brilliant idea. Just not all the babies though, we have to save some for other aspects of the future. The revolution will be televised!