I studied history at university. My mutinous discontent recalls something I read there on the subject of revolutions. They do not happen, it was argued, when the oppressed class is being maximally ground down by misery, but, rather, when conditions improve. It is the slight relief of pressure which gives the downtrodden the chance to lift their heads out of the slime, to look about them. and become cognisant of the true circumstances of their lives. Anna Lyndsey
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The quote above is taken from the opening section of Karl Marx’s "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852". Marx was arguing that revolutions are not driven by despair or misery, but by "a slight improvement in the general conditions of society." The quote above, in part, has been said in support of the theory of the 1960’s when young people were seen as oppressed and disillusioned. The idea was that they were not oppressed because of poverty or desperation, but because they had the opportunity to see their lives in a different way.

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