10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore

[Feo Takahari]

I know the actual historians in the crowd are gonna kill me for linking Io9, but it does make some pretty good points.

10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore

 

[ThinkerX]

Don't know about the integrity of the site overall, but the linked to article seems passable.

 

[CupofJoe]

From small-personal things things big things can happen... it was interesting to read that one cited beginning of the Arab Spring was the self immolation of a market vendor after he had been harassed and humiliated by the local officials just one time too often... Mohamed Bouazizi