At this turning point, youth is likely to follow
dynamic and purposeful leadership.
3. There is a wide diversity in social situations, from rock-ribbed
stability, to entire communities teetering on the brink
or plunging over the brink into the maelstrom of revolution.
Such diverse situations have existed again and again
during the 1750-1970 revolutionary epoch.
4. When a revolutionary situation develops, a revolutionary
leader well-established in a community trembling on the
brink of a revolutionary overturn may seize the reins of
power and establish a regime founded on opposition principles,
dedicated to another set of principles and practices.
When such a revolutionary coup is successful the bells of
history have tolled for the older order and the trumpets
of victory have sounded for the new society.
5. The intensity and the direction of the social changes which
radiate out from the climax of a revolutionary situation
and the consequent, subsequent attempts at counter-revolution,
are the outcome of active, purposive intervention by
all of the social groups present at the center of revolutionary
activity.
The current shift from a laissez-faire economy ("letting nature take her
course"), to a planned, managed, controlled economy is a precedent which
gives us a foretaste of what will lie ahead when a planet-wide federal
government undertakes the planning, direction and management of a
planet-wide economy and society.
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