#+title: Revolution is unlikely to happen where the majority of people are comfortable
- tags :: [[file:20200713100151-revolution.org][revolution]] [[file:20201219144610-likelihood_of_revolution.org][likelihood of revolution]] [[file:20200720100506-french_revolution.org][French Revolution]] [[file:20200707205320-1917_october_revolution.org][1917 October Revolution]] [[file:capitalism.org][capitalism]]
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Historically, revolution only occurs when things are most desperate. A
revolution is necessarily an overthrowing of an existing order, and most people
are not motivated to overthrow the existing order if the existing order is
working for them. When considering nearly every revolution since and including
the French, the thing that spurs on such revolution is mass emiseration. In the
days leading up to the October Revolution, terrorism was commonplace in Russia,
and Russian society was completely broken.