The Revolution of 18 Forty Eight

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Industrial revolution enabled destructive warfare on a scale that nobody could have imagined in the past. Maybe that's a lesson for to day's disrupters. Will call em instead, of revolutionaries, that it don't throw out all the hard won institutions of the past. T lot of em took a long time to build. A and but did it? Robes pierr never run anything in his life. Dantod never ran anything in hisLife. When all of a sudden they emerge out of debation clubs, certainly be the government. Ok. So let's pass forward to the rise of communism, since we're, we're hinting at that. I can't remember if

This conversation takes a deep dive into disruptions. How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces espousing ideas that once flourished only on the outskirts of society. Not all radical groups are the same, and all the groups that the book explores take advantage of challenges that have already shaken the social order. They take advantage of mistakes that have challenged belief in the competence of existing institutions to be effective. It is the particular combination of an alternative ideological system and a period of community distress that are necessary conditions for radical changes in direction. As Disruption demonstrates, not all radical change follows paths that its original proponents might have predicted.