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Old 07-13-2005, 01:42 PM   #8
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
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Originally Posted by lookout123
But even in your examples, poverty is not the cause of the revolution, it is the honey that draws the masses to follow a leader who has never felt the sting of the supposed cause.
It's the same thing. There are always revolutionary would-be leaders wandering about, but there is no revolution, because people are relatively comfortable with the system as it is. A cadre of fanatics only becomes a revolutionary force when they attract popular support.
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