Iranian election

[scaeagles]

We've discussed this in the past, but I don't think "real" revolution is possible any more. Back in the 1770's the rural farmers were almost as well armed as the British. What are the people of Iran or China supposed to do with governments that don't value the lives of their citizens more than they value their own power?

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

We've discussed this in the past, but I don't think "real" revolution is possible any more. Back in the 1770's the rural farmers were almost as well armed as the British. What are the people of Iran or China supposed to do with governments that don't value the lives of their citizens more than they value their own power?

I wonder about that - and China I guess is the model. How much control can a totalitarian regime really claim? Revolution seems as much ideology as weaponry. I think of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the vast efforts that went into East Germany's security state. To some extent authority must be believed in to be claimed.