It worked out well in Cuba, Don. That's basically what Castro did, he "stormed the palace" though it took several years for him to do it, not one day. I've been to Cuba, and I approve of what their revolution accomplished.

It worked for American revolutionaries too...in the late 1700s...and Americans all claim NOW to be in favor of that violent revolution.

It worked for Oliver Cromwell. It worked for the nobles who forced the King to sign the Magna Carta in England.

It worked for the French in their revolution (though the period of transition to a republic was brutal...but in the end it produced a true republic which was far better than what had preceded it.

It worked in Nationalist Spain until Franco and Hitler helped crush that popular revolution.

It worked all over Latin America in the 1800s. Simon Bolivar and other revolutionaries like him are still heroes down there.

It has partially worked in Egypt recently (but they've got a long way to go). It appears to have succeeded in Lybia (though the results are highly suspect, in my opinion. It seems to be underway in Syria...again the process is suspect in certain respects.)

In any case it (revolution) has worked in hundreds of places where it produced positive change. Why do you ignore all the places where it has worked (including your own country!) and point only to the excessive brutalities of Lenin and Stalin?

Has revolution become "unfashionable" in the America that was born out of a revolution? And why would that be? Think about it. Established powers and elites guard their turf jealously...and they ALWAYS oppose any notion of a revolution on their own ground. They might lose their special privileges if that happened.