How can I start a Revolution?

Question

I think its time for a change. A change of this Country and the world. For the Better! How can we do it. And do it right?

Answer 1

Step 1. Decide exactly what needs to be changed, why it should be changed, and what it should be changed to. Limit your list to less than 5 items. Pick out the most important and concentrate on that.

Step 2. Make sure you fully understand why the system is the way it is. There is nothing quite so sad as a revolutionary who finally overthrows the system and has to put it all back together again.

Step 3. Make your views known, and get other people who are like minded to join you in this adventure.

Step 4. Determine the best way to get your ideas implemented. This would include looking at the probability of success each time and who must be involved in the process.

Stay focused. If you are trying to reform welfare, then you probably cannot spend much effort on reworking the education system or the court system.

Be realistic. Antagonizing the current system in certain ways will get you in trouble and your ideas will be forgotten. Working within and about the system can get you a long ways. If you end up being the "go to guy" for a particular subject, then its a lot easier to get your ideas implemented than if you just pick up a sign and sit on the street corner.

Keep an open mind. There are others who may have good ideas. Use them. Don't be shy about finding the right people who really know what they are talking about and have some clout.

Many times the best solution has to be chosen from a lot of bad options. Best does not always mean good. Recognize that what you feel is wrong might very well have been the least wrong of all the available options or the one which was disliked the least. If you can present a better option, you may find that it's used before you can round up a good revolutionary party.

There are a lot of revolutionaries who got things the way they are, so one or two more probably won't hurt too much.

Answer 2

Well, depends on what kind of revolution you want to stage.

1. Join the military as a common soldier and work your way up to the rank of General. Earn the trust of your peers and subordinates, interact with other services, and slowly start stockpiling weapons over the years. Encourage politicians to close bases and reduce funding behind the scenes, while recruiting the discontented former soldiers, sailors and airmen into your own personal army, until you think you have enough power to overthrow the government and maintain martial law.

2. Stockpile food. Stage multiple biological attacks on cattle and grain facilities across the United States, causing widespread famine and riots. Offer to feed those who will join your cause and restore order once you are in power. More "popular" revolutions were started by hunger than any other factor.

3. By far the easiest solution: Go to Harvard or Yale and study law. Do a short term in a cushy job in some branch of the military. Go to cocktail parties, hobnob with rich industrialists and drink expensive whisky. Agree with everyone. Get elected to some small political post, and start observing the failures and indiscretions of your colleagues, black mail them and accumulate favors. Get elected as a representative or a senator. Cash in your favors and get yourself on a committee linked to defense, energy, or intelligence. Vote for a law that will make some rich people much richer and have them fund your campaign. Get elected President. Wait for a crisis to arise (you can speed it up by allowing pictures of Muhammad to be published in the newspapers) and declare martial law. Rewrite the constitution.

Answer 3

Well, I guess all revolutions start with an idea, an idealogy (religion works well too). It needs to be clear and inspiring. If you are really keen on this stuff, you can study the histories of how other revolutions got started e.g. the crusades,communism,civil rights movement, the current islam jihad etc. Btw, I do not support communism or the Islamic Jihad, I'm justing citing them as examples on how to get get large groups of people to get involved in something.

I hope you don't go start some violent **** though. : )

Answer 4

--find people, lots and lots of people. For every three people you think you've found, assume that only *one of them* will be reliable when push comes to shove.

--don't be afraid of new technology when it comes time to communicate and coordinate, but don't become dependent on cell phones and text messaging either....have a low-tech plan B.

--find a fairly narrow and specific interest that attracts a lot of *smart* people, and have it be something you find you can do yourself, things the rest of society wouldn't think of: programming, graphic design, music, hypnosis, para-psychology, etc....something that is geeky enough that folks who think they are in the know *really don't know*. This will give you some minor degree of privacy in the beginning.

--find a loophole in society that you know how to legally subvert and feel free to do so. Every flaw of a social and political sort has a weakness, an Achilles' heel of some sort. The question then becomes: How do I exploit this to the maximum degree possible in the most low-risk, legal way possible?

--Always, *ALWAYS* listen to the feedback of your peers and be ready to either a) switch to Plan B, C, or D, or b) stop activities altogether at a moment's notice. Really. People are that paranoid and messed up these days. So you have to take an evolved strategy.

The political and economic elites *want* to create, hell, in the post-petroleum era they NEED to create, for want of a better term, a *cockroach* society. They want people in the dark, desperate, scrambling in their own filth suffering and willing to do *anything* just to survive, because that makes the humans easier to manipulate and abuse.

In this scenario, you want to be the *praying mantis*. You want to stand still and let opportunities come to you. Conserve your energies and *pick your fights* and use what camoflague is present to survive the short term. And think long term.

Is it the passive, cowardly approach? Yes.

Will it keep you alive and possibly out of prison long enough to see some positive change? Maybe, I am still testing the limits of this approach myself. Because one of the principles behind this is to cultivate camoflague that works on its own, so you can be somewhat flagrant and "hidden in plain sight" as it were.

But then again, what do I know, I'm a nobody right? I have nothing to contribute to YOUR rightwad, corporatist society, as YOU people like to remind me everywhere I go, that I don't fit in, don't have a place in this world, don't have a hope for the future....

Good luck to you, and remember....Kurt Vonnegut was right in _Player Piano_, we do eventually have to kill off ALL the Rich Guys to make the world better for humanity....but. Not this moment, their grip on overbearing military might is too great.

Answer 5

Don't. Most revolutionaries turned out to be nothing more than mass murdering megalomaniacs. The french revolution era was known as "The Reign of Terror" when thousands were beheaded (sounds familiar?), first the aristocrats then all those who wouldn't go along with the program. The poverty of the French peasants was exploited by a psychopathic failure, Robespierre, who was offended by his own mediocrity and lead many to their death. After all was said and done, the poor were still poor. Lenin who laid to Stalin who murdered millions and only the KGB members profited. When all was said and done the poor were still poor. Che Guevara who shot countless in the head. When all was said and done the poor were still poor. Mao Tse Tung, most Chinese are still poor. ONE EXCEPTION, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY IS THE RICHEST CITIZENRY IN THE WORLD.

Answer 6

Ok you need to have a couple of followers... you need a place that you can meet and influence others... ironically a church would be a good starting point... you need a set of beliefs that appeal to you and look good to others... first start off by influencing those around you in a positive way to get the good rep... then start emphasizing the need for change and develop common ground with them... write to local authorities and create petitions...I personally would write a book and get it published but you got to remeber gradual change and not radical change because then your followers and others would be freaked out and not immune to your ideas. Im thinking about it but not from a socialist view of things... im more of a old school thinker... i would read up on Alexander Hamilton, Adolf Hitler, Jesus Christ...etc.. Get on the media with Youtube.com start blogs there so many ways but it takes heart and yea money

Answer 7

Good luck with that one buddy. The US government will simply come in and take your land and home and put you in prison for trying. You want to be loved by everybody and hunted by all authorities? Just stand up and say what everybody has always wanted to say. They'll love you. They won't stand up with you but they will definately like you until the media gets through with you. Then your life as you know it will be over and you'll be both hated and hunted by everyone.

Answer 8

The way to start is to get everyone agree what is right and a better change. That's gonna be a doozy.

Answer 9

watch V for Vendetta and it will help you get in the right step to starting a revolution

Answer 10

Gandhi said "Be the change you want to see in the world."