AMERICANTHINKER - The Mamdami factor
“Where is this communist renaissance going?” My answer is, not far.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (J. Michael Waller) - The ‘fever model’ of revolution: recognize the symptoms that are right before your eyes
Have we entered another time of revolution and insurgency? Mastery of the ideological drivers answers...
Have we entered another time of revolution and insurgency? Mastery of the ideological drivers answers only part of the question. Taking a functional approach to the structure and mechanics of revolution is equally if not more important. This means recognizing the underlying preconditions for such a violent state of affairs to burst forward. Revolutions, of course, occurred well before Marx, yet we tend to view them through a Marxist lens, be it Marxist or counter-Marxist. In misperceiving the origins of revolution, we handicap ourselves in trying to prevent or counter them. Few revolutions are led by the poor and oppressed. Violent revolutions are generally orchestrated and led by educated, privileged, upwardly mobile, intellectual…Open