> Almost no
> one ever makes an abstract decision to Join the Revolution for X.
> Revolutions (or, more accurately in this context, insurrections) are
> never planneed in advance. Large active mass movements develop fighting
> for various reforms. Insurrections are a sort of ab inflection within
> such a movement, catching nearly everyone by surprise. The goals of the
> insurrection (and _now_ the insurrection turns into revolution)are
> worked out in struggle within the revolutionary forces. It's only
> looking backwards that people are able to see that there had been a
> revolutionary struggle all the time, unknown for the most part to the
> participants in it.
>
Good! Then let's stop talking about revolution and maybe one will happen....Now that that's settled, who's up for a nice discussion about what the government should do?
SA