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KingCharlemagne

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31. I must reluctantly concur, albeit sadly. Most sociologists and political scientists who have

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 01:11 PM

Feb 2015

studied the matter agree that for a revolution to be successful a base of between 3-5% of the population who are committed to forcible overthrow of the status quo is an absolute requirement. (This 3-5% militant vanguard would represent the attitudes and aspirations of a far larger segment of society.)

In math terms, that would mean a base of at least 10 million committed revolutionaries in the U.S., numbers Occupy Wall Street could only dream about (and it was beset on all sides by the Babel of competing voices).

I'm not saying it can never happen -- a common front of disaffected middle-class youth, peasants and urban proletariat could form the elements of such a vanguard -- just that we are nowhere near that point yet.

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What the 1 percent thinks about you [View all] Triana Feb 2015 OP

What I think of the 1%: Exhibit A Feb 2015 #1

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Plus, the majority keeps themselves "as is" by the way many vote. I think often voting RKP5637 Feb 2015 #12

And there are those that serve the 1% in return for self security and accolades. raouldukelives Feb 2015 #3

Agree! Well said!!! RKP5637 Feb 2015 #14

this James48 Feb 2015 #4

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Emma Goldman responds: KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #30

I suspect the person that posted this to HuPO ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #6

Perhaps you are missing something. zeemike Feb 2015 #8

Okay. n/t 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #9

IMHO, your interpretation may be correct; that's what I got out of it, too. It could Nay Feb 2015 #17

I think the actual translation of the adviser's statement, in practical terms, is Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #22

Is that what the advisor's statement indicates? ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #24

That's assuming they think of us at all alcina Feb 2015 #7

True--they don't think of us at all. I know I've repeated this apochryphal story Nay Feb 2015 #13

This is so true ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #20

I think it goes beyond that alcina Feb 2015 #23

I think we are far, far, far from any "tipping point." n/t. 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #25

I must reluctantly concur, albeit sadly. Most sociologists and political scientists who have KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #31

We do have the internet. cilla4progress Feb 2015 #27

As Princess Leia said to Obi-wan alcina Feb 2015 #32

What the 1% thinks of those below them LiberalArkie Feb 2015 #10

Very True BlueJazz Feb 2015 #11

Well, duh, assshole, sulphurdunn Feb 2015 #15

The rich do not think about me at all. oldandhappy Feb 2015 #18

We already know what they think, donnasgirl Feb 2015 #19

These are the very same people who earn their living sucking randr Feb 2015 #21

Angry songs about the rich Half-Century Man Feb 2015 #26

The initial key issue for us is VOTING, righty is going to stop millions of you from voting NoJusticeNoPeace Feb 2015 #28

F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator, Nick, in "The Great Gatsby" tells us KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #29

I don't think this is quite true. Brigid Feb 2015 #33

We should be very careful tavernier Feb 2015 #34

There is a big difference between the "1%" and "Super Rich" Doug Gollan Feb 2015 #35

Ajay Kapur, of Citigroup, coined the term 'Plutonomy' in 2005. LongTomH Feb 2015 #37

You do know blog flogging is a no-no here, don't you? marble falls Feb 2015 #38

There is a big difference as to numbers, but why is it so important to you that randys1 Feb 2015 #39

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