O que é uma revolução?

Abstract

In history and in life there is no change that will not arouse opposition, no struggle that does not find reaction. Revolution and counterrevolution are inseparable in contemporary history. The argument of this research is that revolutions must be understood as a historical phenomenon, that is, one of the ways of transformation of contemporary societies, which precipitate when changes by negotiations fail. Its most important defining characteristic was always the outburst of popular classes and their active intervention in the political arena : in other words, the abrupt increase in the intensity of class struggles. However acute the economic crisis might be, for more severe the social disaster, no matter how long the agony of a political regime, if the masses do not come into the scene, a revolutionary situation is not open. A revolution is a process, not only as insurrection. And one of the common characteristics of contemporary revolutions was the intense and accelerated dispute over the leadership that leads to dizzying replacement of the organizations that are ahead of the masses fighting forces. All revolutions begin as political revolutions (the struggle to overthrow governments and regimes) and may, in fact, have a strong tendency to radicalization in social revolutions (the struggle for change in property relations). Revolutions do not happen because there are revolutionaries who desire them. Revolutionary tendencies can maintain intense activity for decades and remain indefinitely marginal. Therefore, stay harmless. A revolutionary process only opens when the gravity of the social crisis is so great that many millions of people, hitherto indifferent to collective destinies, awaken to political struggle.