{"id":1595,"date":"2009-11-10T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T23:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2009-11-10T16:34:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T23:34:19","slug":"revolutions-from-1789-to-1989-or-how-the-guillotine-turned-into-a-round-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/11\/10\/revolutions-from-1789-to-1989-or-how-the-guillotine-turned-into-a-round-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutions from 1789 to 1989, or, how the guillotine turned into a round table."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/23437\">Timothy Garton Ash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The Velvet Revolution], might be contrasted with an ideal type of 1789-style revolution, as further developed in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Mao&#8217;s Chinese revolution. The 1789 ideal type is violent, utopian, professedly class-based, and characterized by a progressive radicalization, culminating in terror. A revolution is not a dinner party, Mao Zedong famously observed,\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The 1989 ideal type, by contrast, is nonviolent, anti-utopian, based not on a single class but on broad social coalitions, and characterized by the application of mass social pressure\u2014&#8221;people power&#8221;\u2014to bring the current powerholders to negotiate. It culminates not in terror but in compromise. If the totem of 1789-type revolution is the guillotine, that of 1989 is the round table.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thebrowser.com\/content\/velvet-and-other-revolutions-timothy-garton-ash-new-york-review-books-9-november-2009\">The Browser<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Garton Ash: [The Velvet Revolution], might be contrasted with an ideal type of 1789-style revolution, as further developed in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Mao&#8217;s Chinese revolution. The 1789 ideal type is violent, utopian, professedly class-based, and characterized by a progressive radicalization, culminating in terror. A revolution is not a dinner party, Mao&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}