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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (117393)10/23/2003 1:37:41 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
<starving, poorly educated people do not revolt>

I'm sure, if you give it 30 seconds of thought, you can come up with 20 counter-examples to this. And 200, with a few minutes Googling. Truth is closer to 180 degrees the other way: it is well-fed, well-educated people who are the least likely to revolt. They have a stake in the status quo.

Actually, the lesson of history is more complex. Those who are reasonably prosperous and content do not revolt; on the other hand, starving people also do not revolt, because they are too weak and must concentrate their energies on find their next meal.

The surest recipe for a revolt is a long period of rising prosperity accompanied by rising expectations, which are then thwarted by some reversal. Almost never do the poor lead the revolt; some member of the aristocracy or middle class leads the revolt and gives color to its ideology.
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