JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - HOW VIOLENT REVOLUTION IS NOW INCAPABLE OF BEING A MEANS OF BETTERMENT! PART 1.

 

'It is the case that a violent revolution can be the means by which a people, class or country can be freed of their chains of oppression or enslavement. 

However, there is more than sufficient evidence, from the observation of history and its evolution. 

That it, the violent revolution, does not of itself, has the capability and inherent qualities and attributes to establish and maintain a dynamic, just and progressive society.'

Revolutions must be lead, and be led by more one person. They need to be led collectively, by competent, capable and flexible leaders in all the key areas of society, social, economic, industrial, cultural and political. 

'Revolutions' need to be organic and evolutionary in their development. 

Where one person or a cadre attempts or succeed in 'arrest and use the revolution' to achieve their own ends, probably legitimising 'their right' to do so, on the spacious argument that they have somehow earned it by 'liberating the nation' from the previous regime. 

They tend to bankrupt the country and its people on most or nearly every key indices. To different degrees, this is what we can deduce from the 'post-revolutionary' histories of countries such as Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Nicaragua, et al.

It is the nature of revolutions that they are brought about by a minority, the elite leaders, on the back of or with the support of a greater number of people.  

By means of the destruction of the pre-existing ruling elites and the system they have set up to carry out their rule. 

So, at its essence, the challenge, the main challenge for any 'violent revolution', is that of effecting the destruction of the pre-existing socio-political and economic order, and to build a better and more virtuous one, in what we could call its purest form. 

Of course, just as how political and philosophical ideologies - like many other ideologies - tend to be variations on one or more themes. 

So can be see violent revolutions as positioning or trying to position themselves along a spectrum of left-to-right or right-to-left.

To be continued!