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Then who exactly initiated them? And why? Is it really spontaneous rebellion? I do not believe in those...Even if it is it will not work because of the lack of organization.
I think everybody is initiating them, or rather that every organisation that potentially could (commies, fundies, unions) do an uprising is taking credit and helping as the rebellions erupt from frustration, starvation, unemployment and the belief that finally the time has come.
Big part is demographics coupled with IMF-style economics, giving huge unemployment. Lots and lots of unemployed young men. Education matters little, contacts much. Like what was said about Russia in the early 20th century - they face revolution at home or war abroad (tried one, got both). Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
Nailed. herding all these cats into a viable political alternative to dictatorship is going to be interesting.
the long messy discussions are what slows democracy down, but the alternative seems always worse.
do not destroy what you cannot create.
that is the rule. now, how to break it correctly. we can all help, that's the beautiful thing... in reality we have no choice. 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
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