What triggers a revolution? Well, I've been doing quite a bit of background study on the French Revolution for my literature text; Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities". However on reading about some incidents like lower class people getting arrested just because they "pissed-off" some aristocrats I wondered whether this isn't what's going on at home. Ironic and unbelievable as it might seem, I begin to think that this could very well be the beginning of a revolution. Don't we see the signs? Lets compare and see whether we see in Maldives what we saw en France in the 1700s
• Inequality and class discrimination- check
• Government dominated by the upper class- check
• Widespread poverty- not really
• Public display of dissatisfaction with the government and being able to get almost no response- check
• Protection of crimes committed against commoners by the aristocrats- to a large extent
So the question is...Will this situation galvanise a revolution or not? Or what we are calling the "reform"... could this be a milder version of the Maldivian Revolution? Or rather than a public revolt, could this situation instead lead to a military coup like that did of our neighboring Pakistan? Where do we, the non-politician commoner end then? Be it a revolution, a military coup or even a foreign invasion, where would that leave us? Will we be part of the masses that were sacrificed for the freedom of the majority? Will we be among those who will be discriminated after the revolution? Would that be true emancipation after all? Is there anything called true equality?
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“The seed of revolution is repression.”...with this seed...after so many years ... a revolution was materialising some years back... but i believe it was:
1. hijacked by some capitalist class elites,some wolves in sheep's clothing.
2.it was watered down by an experienced,wise old arsehole.
(just imagine u shake a coke bottle...it will exert a pressure on the cap... it will be waiting to burst out till some one remove it..or if we heat it..maybe the bottle would burst.. and if open it suddenly same will happen. but what if we release the gas slowly..and slowly open the bottle.?? no more pressure.. we will have to shake it again if we want pressure.. but is there any way we could do it without covering its mouth?)
so i guess our revolution was killed.now most maldivians are sick of it.. even the mere mentioning of 'politics' makes them sick.Now its time for a social revolution. i think thats what we need most now.but maybe... maybe another revolution would start...god only knows.if there is one..i guess it wud be the fifth point u have mentioned that would trigger it.
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