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To: elmatador who wrote (101368)	6/22/2013 10:20:23 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 220242

You Say You Want a Revolution? Protests and riots are spreading around the world. Where do they come from and what do they signify? By Christopher Dickey. thedailybeast.com The history of revolutions is, in fact, full of people who rode to power on a wave of popular sentiment, then installed themselves as tyrants. The bloody effervescence of the Bastille gave way to Robespierre and then Napoleon; Stalin crushed Trotsky. (George Orwell’s Animal Farm gives as good a blueprint as any for the way this cynical process works.) And we’ve seen it happen recently in the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt commandeered the enthusiasm of Tahrir Square to put itself in power; the Al-Qaeda-linked Jebhat al-Nusra has channeled the moral outrage on the streets of Syria to serve its own violent designs. ***** But the mother of all contagious uprisings was the wave of revolutionary fervor that swept Europe in 1848. The events of 165 years ago in France, Italy, Austria, Prussia and elsewhere are mostly forgotten by modern Americans, but “the parallels with contemporary globalization are very obvious,” says Nottingham University’s David Laven, author of the forthcoming Restoration and Risorgimento; Italy 1796—1870. The people dying at the barricades were artisans who’d seen their livelihoods taken away by new industries and organizations. They were students whose families had made enormous sacrifices to get them good educations, only to discover the promised jobs were not to be had.