Unfortunately that’s pretty much the fate of any attempt at revolution nowadays, the gap between how many a soldier can kill versus one civilian can kill is just too high. In the US where people have more rights and were more free to coordinate, it hasn’t mattered how much ICE was outnumbered.
Revolutions typically involve some level of military defection - troops refusing to fire on crowds, turning their guns around, etc. So it isn’t impossible. In the case of Iran it basically is though, because people typically don’t have revolutions when their country is in a war of national survival againt genocidal nazis.
That’s true, but there’s several problems with that: the social bubble of the people who serve in those military usually have some distance from the societal norm, violence and chaos makes the country susceptible to be picked off by special interests, and it basically means that at the end of the day their leaders have to be willing to relinquish power.
Successful revolutions don’t start with the guns. They start with stoppage. Have all the worker bees go on strike and the railways, ports and airports stop working and see how far a regime lasts
That’s another problem, people are not the borg, and they also need to survive. It’s part of the reason authoritarian governments tend to play different regions and subcultures against each other.
Unfortunately that’s pretty much the fate of any attempt at revolution nowadays, the gap between how many a soldier can kill versus one civilian can kill is just too high. In the US where people have more rights and were more free to coordinate, it hasn’t mattered how much ICE was outnumbered.
Revolutions typically involve some level of military defection - troops refusing to fire on crowds, turning their guns around, etc. So it isn’t impossible. In the case of Iran it basically is though, because people typically don’t have revolutions when their country is in a war of national survival againt genocidal nazis.
That’s true, but there’s several problems with that: the social bubble of the people who serve in those military usually have some distance from the societal norm, violence and chaos makes the country susceptible to be picked off by special interests, and it basically means that at the end of the day their leaders have to be willing to relinquish power.
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Successful revolutions don’t start with the guns. They start with stoppage. Have all the worker bees go on strike and the railways, ports and airports stop working and see how far a regime lasts
That’s another problem, people are not the borg, and they also need to survive. It’s part of the reason authoritarian governments tend to play different regions and subcultures against each other.