[Discussion] Revolutions?

[chopstickchakra]

Are revolutions doomed to fail? I ask because of the highrony(patent pending) of the word to the action. A revolution in the political or social sense is to enact change to the established method. But in the mechanical sense of the word it's a complete rotation. A complete rotation in the political or social sense means something would change but the change wouldn't last and you would end up at the point before the change happened. When I say fail I don't mean fail to take hold I mean fail to stay and have a lasting impact.

Some possible examples, the American colonies had their revolution from England who they saw as oppressive and now has sort of become what they(we) revolted against. The Bolshevik revolution was a communist revolution against what they felt was an oppressive leadership and what came from that too has turned into an oppressive force. Castro and Cuba. And of course these are very simplistic descriptions of the events, there's no way I could get into the history of it all on here this is just food for thought.

So do you think in some weird everything's interconnected things happen for a reason chance Revolutions the act are destined to fail because of the definition of the word meaning to end where you start.

 

[Fresco]

Well, saying America became what it revolted against is a massive over-simplification, so it kind of defeats the purpose of your thread. Also take for instance the many successful cultural revolutions that have taken place over the course of history.