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Thread #149706   Message #3484770
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
28-Feb-13 - 02:20 PM
Thread Name: Nailing your colours to the mast...
Subject: RE: Nailing your colours to the mast...
You left out Washington, Jefferson and co in there MtheGM.

But the fact that bourgeois involvement seems to be a universal element doesn't. In any way stop a revolution from being properly described as popular. Wnat determines that is whether it has widespread support and involvement from the wider population.

And 'democracy' need not enter into it. It's quite possible, even common, to have popular dictatorships. Even popular hereditary monarchies.