I read, in another thread, the following statement ...

[Savannahmann]

41. When the Revolutionary War began in 1776, the declared war.

Do you think that the colonists had any idea how their Government would work eleven years hence? Must the destination be mapped fully to your satisfaction before the disaffected are allowed to revolt?

I'm not sure that the people fighting under Mao knew that the Revolution would become a cult of personality with single dictatorial rule in their futures. We know that many in Cuba did not expect that.

Look at Yugoslavia during the Second World War. There were three and sometimes four groups of Partisans fighting. Nationalist who wanted a Yugoslavia free of Germans and the Royal Family. Those loyal to the Royals. Communist supporting groups, and sometimes groups that were more Pro German. None of them could have possibly agreed on what the post war Yugoslavia would have as a future Government. But three of them agreed on one thing, there would be no Germans in the future. When the two main opposition groups were not fighting Germans, they were fighting each other.

France was much the same, with competing groups of Partisans all wanting to reshape a liberated France by their own design.

So we have historical examples of chaos leading to some sort of organizations afterwards, but none that I can think of where a people rebelled and got the utopian vision they might have dreamed of. If they had known it would end up that way, it's possible they would not support the rebellion. It's also possible they would, because look at Cuba again. No matter how bad it was under Castro, nobody ever wanted a return to Batista. In other words, there does not need to be a cohesive plan for the future that the people can agree upon, there needs only be a general distrust of and opposition to the current Government.