tfast wrote:
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> >
> > Incidentally -- it only takes 15-20% of a population to make a
> > revolution. So the Capitalists were right to be scared of that small
> > part of the population that was raising hell.
> >
> > Carrol
> >
> Unfortunately it takes 50+1 % to make a democratic revolution. And that is
> why electorally speaking elites in liberal democracies rarely panic.
You are too optimistic. Given all the machinery of the state it would probably take about 80% or more.
> Whenever, that is, they have control of the army.
Iran & the SU demonstrate that the state can _never_ be confident of controlling the army.
Carrol
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> Travis
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