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Forum Post: How to run a successful revolution

Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 30, 2011, 7:12 p.m. EST by shadow9 (1)
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Read Gene Sharp's from Dictatorship to Democracy,

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[-] 1 points by ArabSpring (1) 13 years ago

A successful revolution has to be:

  1. Comprehensive- covering all aspects of life (social, economical, governmental, educational etc)

  2. Radical- starts from zero (no more reforms)

  3. Clear/Planned- failing to plan is planning to fail.

  4. Intellectual. revolutions should come with new thoughts (think out side the square)

[-] 1 points by SevenStarHand (2) 13 years ago

I have been working hard towards solutions to the global monetary trap that we are all victimized by. Please be a little patient and I will give you the keys to actually winning this revolution, now and not later. You will have to do a little reading, because until you "know your enemy" you are wandering blind on the battlefield.

http://forgingnewparadigms.blogspot.com/

Here is the Wisdom to win...

[-] 0 points by fuzzyp (302) 13 years ago

Well, it's a great thing you're at the top running the whole show.

[-] 1 points by harding (15) 13 years ago

SHADOW9 is correct, this book has the potential to free the world.

and here it is free-- i recommend the 2.5 hour British female voice version.

Gene Sharp - From Dictatorship to Democracy The arabic, version of this book, was used to bring down dictator's in the middle east- supported from within Serbia.

posted here is the book in both-pdf format & mp3 audio, in male & female voices. (English)
in " free" downloadable form-
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From Dictatorship to Democracy adobe-pdf - 1 mb  (english)

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf

female voice version (english)- mp3 - 154.02 MB 2.5 hours

http://www.multiupload.com/P45C8H7ED2

mp3 male voice version (english)-154.02 MB 2.5 hours

http://www.multiupload.com/1VGT1XI0BE

Arabic

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD_Arabic-2.pdf

simplefied chinese

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD_simp._Chinese.pdf

traditional chinese

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD_trad._Chinese.pdf

Gene Sharp's   web page  and  free  writings- 
<http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html>
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Contents: FROM CHAPTER 1...

In recent years various dictatorships—of both internal and external origin—have collapsed or stumbled when confronted by defiant, mobilized people. Often seen as firmly entrenched and impregnable, some of these dictatorships proved unable to withstand the concerted political, economic, and social defiance of the people.

Since 1980 dictatorships have collapsed before the predominantly nonviolent defiance of people in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Slovenia, Madagascar, Mali, Bolivia, and the Philippines. Nonviolent resistance has furthered the movement toward democratization in Nepal, Zambia, South Korea, Chile, Argentina, Haiti, Brazil, Uruguay, Malawi, Thailand, Bulgaria, Hungary, Zaire, Nigeria, and various parts of the former Soviet Union (playing a significant role in the defeat of the August 1991 attempted hard-line coup d’état).

In addition, mass political defiance has occurred in China, Burma, and Tibet in recent years. Although those struggles have not brought an end to the ruling dictatorships or occupations, they have exposed the brutal nature of those repressive regimes to the world community and have provided the populations with valuable experience with this form of struggle.

The collapse of dictatorships in the above named countries certainly has not erased all other problems in those societies: poverty, crime, bureaucratic inefficiency, and environmental destruction are often the legacy of brutal regimes. However, the downfall of these dictatorships has minimally lifted much of the suffering of the victims of oppression, and has opened the way for the rebuilding of these societies with greater political democracy, personal liberties, and social justice.

training web page http://tinyurl.com/7rvpv43

[-] 1 points by kingscrosssection (314) 13 years ago

Guess who's going to make some money now. I bet you'll all want to take it away from him.

[-] 1 points by harding (15) 13 years ago

that book is free on dr gene sharps web page- http://www.aeinstein.org/ plus ows supplies it on this web page for free- and i have supplied it above for free-- and on this web page for free- training web page http://tinyurl.com/7rvpv43

[-] 1 points by kingscrosssection (314) 13 years ago

All fine and dandy but if I wrote a similar book and tried to sell it, what would your reaction be?

[-] 0 points by gawdoftruth (3698) from Santa Barbara, CA 13 years ago

don't bother with that.

http://occupythiswiki.org/wiki/WorkShops_in_SB_on_Sunday

this is much better.

[-] 0 points by Occupyalife (-7) 13 years ago

Old hippie fuck I need your help. Need help making a t-shirt. We need to draw a picture of Zooccotti Park with a cage around it. Here are some ideas: Draw a hippie climbing the cage like a monkey and throwing shit. Draw a hippie rolling in mud and shit like a pig. Draw a hippies fucking like dogs. Draw a picture of a hippie eating peanuts like a big fucking elephant. Draw a hippie as a lazy fucking Ape doing nothing.