coup-de-tat? Would that make the sexual revolution tit-for-tat? On Jan 19, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Steven Brust wrote: > >> I don't think that revolution is yet justified. I also don't >> see the coming election as one that could possibly fix the problems; >> perhaps revolution is the only way. BUT, I would recommend exhausting >> all further means as really-good-tries before you resort to >> revolution. >> > > I beg to submit that, if we make the scientific distinction between > "revolution" and "coup-de-tat" (the former being the bringing to > power of a > new social class; the latter being a shuffling within the same social > class) > then never in history has a revolution occurred before all other means > were > attempted. > >