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To: chalu2 who wrote (4917)10/14/2001 1:29:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 281500
 
chalu2, I would add a fifth observation. The really dangerous conditions for revolution are not extreme poverty and despair, but rising expectations that have been disappointed. Starving people don't have the energy to revolt. But people who have tasted a more prosperous future, and been thwarted, are like tinder for a revolutionary ideology to ignite. Conditions like this touched off the French Revolution.