Is revolution necessary?

In the absence of strong institutions and incapacity of elites to perform necessary reforms, revolution moves beyond being necessary to becoming inevitable. That happened time and time again. read more

The most important reason, however — in my opinion – has been the profound change that has taken place in economic ideology. Both monetarism and market theory remove from economic management voluntarism, political intelligence, and moral responsibility, by describing economic function as objective and automatic. read more

Revolution is never objectively necessary, but it is nevertheless an actuality as certain as the existence of systems of governance itself. Revolution happens less because it is required, and more because the confluence of certain variables makes it inevitable. read more