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The Failed Revolutions that Could Have Changed History
Haven’t you ever sat there in hindsight, drinking history down retrospectively like an already-bad whisky that has been mixed with some equally worse soda and a couple of rocks thrown in for good measure and wondered what life would be like if this or that event hadn’t actually happened? What would have happened if that soldier that had spared the life of Adolf Hitler as he decided not to kill him at point blank range when he came across him injured had decided otherwise? Yes, Henry Tandey, the most decorated soldier in theBritish Army in World War One is at least said to have spared his life despite the fact that there is little evidence of it actually being true. Hitler exploited the fact that Tandey was the most decorated man whenPrime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived to get the famous “peace in our time”, that wasn’t forthcoming, and said that he had been saved. But, whether it be true or not, it’s an example of how we react in the world looking back and wishing that perhaps things hadn’t happened the way they did. What if? What if that had happened rather than what actually did? Man is full of regrets, isn’t he?
But, looking back, what would be the life-changing events that would have made history different, perhaps better? Those events that would have changed the course of history and made the world a different place? The revolutions that never happened?
Top 10 Revolutions that Could Have Changed the World…But Didn’t
10. The Gang of 8
When President Gorbachev came to power in 1985 he embarked on the biggest and most ambitious program of political and economic restructuring of the Soviet Union. He introduced perestroika and glasnost. He met resistance from hardliners in the party and there was great fear that the Soviet Union would splinter since there was a growing increase in nationalism around the union. The 8 members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that led the coup against Gorbachev saw their attempt to stem the decentralization of Moscow’s power to the republics fail in just two short days. However, had the revolution succeeded, the Soviet Union would still be what we would be calling the Russian Federation today and the demise of the Communist Party would perhaps have been postponed.
9. The California Republic
It was short-lived and remained unrecognized but it was nonetheless declared for a few weeks in 1846, when the military controlled the north of San Francisco Bay. Their independence was only for three weeks, but what wouldn’t some people give to get three weeks of independence from the US government these days? Just how different would the US be today if California hadn’t been swallowed up by the USA?
8. The February Revolution
This was the first of two revolutions in Russia in the same year, the second one (the October Revolution) of course being the most famous and the one that saw Lenin rise to power and the creation of the Communist state that the Soviet Union was to become. Actually the February Revolution was in March (but at the time March was February in the Julian calendar). The February Revolution only lasted three weeks and was confined to St Petersburg but it resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicolas II. Alexander Kerensky was nominated as the head of the government but he made the mistake of maintaining Russia’s involvement in the First World War, despite incurring already heavy losses. He also ended capital punishment, declared freedom of speech and released political prisoners. All of this paved the way for Lenin’s rise to power. Kerensky had promised to deliver the peasants with food, jobs and land and to do that almost immediately. Of course, he didn’t do any of it. Sound familiar? Had he succeeded in stemming all of that, Russia would perhaps not have become the Soviet Union.
7. African Revolution
Che Guevara attempted to start a Communist Revolution in Africa although it failed dismally due to lack of local support. The only remedy to the Third World’s position as a sub-level continent was to fight using world revolution and proletarian internationalism against the monopoly of capitalism and imperialism of the western world. He tried to export revolution to Congo-Kinshasa in 1965 but he was captured and executed by Bolivian forces, assisted by the CIA. How would things be in Africa today if he had succeeded in rousing local support and fighting the world revolution against the west’s hegemony and exploitation?
6. The Beer Hall Putsch
This putsch took place in 1923 and was a failed attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler to gain power in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It took place in 1923 and resulted in 16 deaths in the Nazi Party and 4 policemen being killed. Hitler’s attempt at gaining power failed, but he was arrested and thrown into prison for five years. He gained widespread publicity and it brought the party to the forefront of German politics at the time. The time in prison also allowed Hitler to write Mein Kampf, all of which finally brought him to being elected to power rather than having to take it by force.
5. The United States of Belgium
The Belgians overthrew the Austrian Emperor in 1790 and they set up the Belgium Republic. The Republic only existed between January and December 1790 but it was founded on the very same lines as the United States. Had it survived it might have seen the spreading of democracy much more quickly throughout Europe. The Austrian Emperor Leopold II quickly managed to recapture the Austrian Netherlands and quelled the newly founded state. However, his own rule was quickly overturned again by the French who annexed Belgium in 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Had the United States of Belgium existed the US might have been the founding father of more models of political set-up around the world.
4. The Bavarian Soviet Republic
Another Communist revolution that failed in the world was in Bavaria when the Bavarians decided to declare an independent republic there. They even declared war on Switzerland for refusing to lend them trains. In November 1918 a politician in Bavaria called Kurt Eisner demanded the abdication of the Bavarian King, Ludwig III as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II? He also demanded a working day that would not exceed 8 hours for the people and relief for the unemployed. They were defeated by May 1919, however.
3. Shay’s Rebellion
In 1786 Daniel Shays led a revolution against the US government. Veterans rose up against what they perceived as economic injustices by Massachusetts. The rebellion gained ground but it was quickly quashed. Had it succeeded things perhaps may have been different. But, because it failed, George Washington called for greater powers to quell any further uprisings in the country. Shay was critical of the cronyism of the government, the fact that people were governed by those that were so far removed from that that they had no idea what was going on in the lives of people. He also stated that the government was corrupt and that taxation was regressive. How would it have been, had Shays succeeded in his revolution?
2. The Third Servile War
In 73BC Spartacus led a slave revolt against the Roman Republic. Had he succeeded in his daring feat, the Roman Republic (even before it had had time to become the Roman Empire) would have collapsed beyond repair much earlier than it did. The band of 120,000 men and women raided and ransacked Italy for years with impunity and their defeat led to the transition towards the Roman Empire and control over an entire continent.
1. The Paris Commune
Between March and May 1871 Paris was the world’s smallest state after the French had been forced to surrender, defeated by the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War. The government of France was overthrown as a consequence. But, The Commune was chaotic and corrupt and was defeated within two months itself by the regular French Army. The Commune was a socialist revolutionary and communist movement that was a four-month siege of the capital. Had it succeeded, France might have become the first Communist state in the world.
There are many revolutions, uprisings and rebellions that might have changed the course of our histories. But, what is history if it is nothing more than interpretation of facts and those facts are usually told by one person anyhow. History is always dictated to us by the winners, isn’t it?
The world revolution originally meant the planets that revolved around the Earth at that long-distant time when we believed that we were central to the universe. Well, have things changed these days? We still believe that we are the center of things although the only difference is that now we know that we are from the central element in the universe; we just try to kid ourselves along. A revolution was the movement of the celestial bodies, out of man’s hands and inevitable, almost god-like and divine intervention. We took that word and first applied it to the Glorious Revolution, which wasn’t one at all in the UK in 1688 when the Dutch stadtholder William of Orange-Nassau overthrew the last Catholic king of the country, James II. It was the first time that the word was applied to anything other than the celestial bodies, but it was far from the modern sense of the word that we have acquired since the French Revolution. But, even that was only an afterthought. In the days that followed the storming of the Bastille and the King being arrested in France, they talked of national regeneration. If only we would learn to regenerate our nations these days rather than just reproducing the same order that has governed us or centuries.
Man is full of regrets, isn’t he? We look back and we wish for things to be different. Life is a complex matrix of events. You cross the road and walk that little bit faster and you will turn the corner before you were meant to and so miss the person that will be the change in your life. Or you’ll cross the road and slow down and bump into the person that will destroy everything you have.
Imagine the world without Ben Bernanke and what if Janet Yellen had failed her exams at high school because she was watching the football team playing soccer too much? What would have happened if Igor Sikorsky hadn’t invented the first helicopter on September 14th 1939, how would Ben Bernanke have thrown the money out to the banks from the heavens above and saved the planet (or so we were told)? There are so many what-ifs and things that could have bene different.
What regrets do you have today in the economic world and who do you wish you had never heard of?
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Only one successful revolution in history, the USA's. Unfortunately it was short lived, died in 1812, the Crown took control back.
If you want read an historian with a conspiratorial view of history that was censored out of our news, education and media, look no further than Eric Jon Phelps. He connects all the dots better than anyone.
It's pretty phenomenol how much we have all been deceived and actually trained to dismiss the conspiracies that have poisoned our bodies and enslaved our minds to this very day.
Eric Jon Phelps - Vatican Assassins, Jesuit Order, Knights of Malta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F31TmQ9GwU
Counter-balance:
http://www.conspiracyworld.com/phelps_zionist_promoter.htm
Hawaiian revolt and all subsequent revolutions by the native people to take their country back since the American sugar plantation owners initiated a coup against the Hawaiian monarchy and its people in the 1890's were landmark moments that subjugated and exterminated what was an internationally recognized and friendly independent country. It was only in 1959 that Hawaii officially became an annexed state absorbed into the USA, the 50th and last state to do so.
A good point in the article about rebellions in general citing the leadership of a nation being far removed from the people. If the leaders cannot travel in their own country without spending billions of dollars in security and armoured vehicles, then as a rule, they are not leaders but overlords removed by design from ordinary people. If they cannot discuss the state of the nation frankly and openly without a cabal of propagandists to help them lie, obsfucate and spin the truth, then they have no business calling themselves representatives of their people.
You forgot the Curragh Mutiny March 1914 when CIGS Sir John French informed the Government the British Army might refuse to obey orders, and the Director of Military Ops was siding with the UVF and Carson's million strong Ulster Volunteer Force.
The first time a British Government had lost control of the Army since 1688.
That Revolution would have changed history, in the event they bled the UVF and the British Army dry on The Somme
It would. The Irish people might still be free and prosperous in a strong and United Kingdom, spared generations of poverty, Rome Rule and now Berlin Rule.
As it was, the City of London was only too happy to hand Ireland over to the pedophile priests who would have controlled any Irish parliament, Sinn Fein or no Sinn Fein, in return for a far smaller Irish caucus in Westminster. The only concession they made was to grant Ulster her own government, and only after it became clear a United Ireland would be ungovernable.
Mutiny for the Cause - Connaught Rangers 1920. Sam Pollock. (The Ranger(s) was the last British soldier ever put to death for mutiny)
Even if Hitler had been killed, another Hitler would gave been manufactured
Germany faced the choice of an Army Putsch or Communist takeover by 1932
Failure is why we should be planning now, as, when the time comes, failure is not an option.
Always remember the American people are armed with three very powerful weapons that other societies in history have not had:
1) A knowledge of, and history of Liberty and Freedom, and documents and law attesting that our Liberty and freedom indeed already exists--we are already free, and we only need fight to affirm that fact.
2) The tyranny built upon our backs, the American people's backs, by Zion and their grifting banksters is built with sod bricks of fiat-debt. Fiat-debt that in actuality is our wealth stolen and then loaned back to us with usury. We need only stop paying them their demanded debt service and usury, and then demand that they pay us back. With that, their whole sod ponzi edifice will tumble into the swamp from which it arose.
3) We, the American people, are the most heavily armed society is history. Enough said.
See you on the battlefield.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny a submission.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Stop Paying. Stop Playing. Stop Obeying.
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution. No “truth and reconciliation,” but “trial and Retribution.”
There is so much more to war than preparation. Mead prepared his troops well, and was relieved of command. Where, who, why, how, logistics, communication. Don’t waste your time. Leaders who win have a clear vision of where they want to go, how to get there, and have the ability to mix up tactics on a moment’s notice.
Be sure to follow or in the very least get out of the way lol. Just take the keys. Use their system against them. 24 hours. It's over.
And many more.
Yawn.
Or, how about that Article V and a second convention of states? No turning required. Just a clearly drawn straight line from 1787 to (?)...
The Article V convention has not so secretly been agreed to. Though they are keeping it on the downlow as they build a propaganda meme around needing to "call" an Article V convention, and then Zion and the neocons will gut the Constitution to the bone.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
I don't think the Constitution will get gutted if a Convention is called. The odds of a Convention happening are very, very long to begin with.
It is the only peaceful option left. The people in charge right now are gutting the Constitution without a Convention. At least with the Convention we can say we gave it every peaceful effort to do things the right/legal way. We need to give it a chance.
^^^This^^^
...The only alternatives to Ariticle V are to continue to boil like frogs or bloody revolt of which the former will inevitably lead to the latter anyway.
the creation of the USA from the several states was a coup by the plutocrats against the white majority.
Put me and 4 people like me on the supreme court, and we will end this tyrannical regime
Bavarian Soviet Republic - http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic
It wasnt so much the "Bavarians" as a tiny minority
ditto in Hungary
http://www.marxist.com/hungarian-soviet-republic-1919.htm
where later on, that minority ruled - and led a totalitarian dystopia.
Don't bother wasting your bad whiskey on the sorrows of yesterday... You've already experienced those!! If you truly want a depressing adventure get blasted and imagine the future that could but will never happen! Now that shit will tear your heart out.
U left out the United States' War Between the States waged by Abe the motherfucker Lincoln, who had to kill, maim, impoverish over 1.2 million men and their families to stop a few states from doing their own thing.
The lionizing of Lincoln, likely the worst negotiator in history, is so totally corrupt, the graves of those forced to fight and die in Gettysburg, Arlington and Vicksburg churn and twist in Joy, at his assassination.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/nationa...
Somebody conveniently "forgot" to mention the CSA
Robt E Lee was the closest to defeating the powers that now today swarm upon us all -such that even today his name brings forth fear and loathing in DC and NY
Yep, the ideals of self-government put forth in the Declaration of Independence died in 1865.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I fly both the "American" flag amd the Confedate Battle flag on my flag pole in my front yard. The so called american flag is flown upside down, due to the fact that this country is in distress and the upside down flag is a symbol reflecting that condition. I fly the Confedate flag in honor of all those brave Confederate soldiers, both white and black, that died in that awfull war. I most likely would have worn a gray uniform if I was a participant in that war.
When someone tells me that my Confedate flag is offensive to them, I have told both of them that they are offensive to me, that they know nothing of the history of that war and that they don't have to look at it.
The CSA would have lasted about 20 years before topsoil depletion and currency collapse would have had them begging to be re-admitted to the Union, and of course freeing the slaves would have been one of the conditions. How differnt would America be if economics instead of military conflict have settled this issue?
If it was about "Slavery", which Lincoln as a racist actuallly SUPPORTED (read the Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1859), then the wealthy New England oligarchs might have easily purchased the slaves and set them free. Slavery was abolished in most of the British Empire using this method and there was no violent wars as a result.
ALL MILITARY CONFLICT...ALL WARS...ARE ECONOMIC.
Thus ECONOMICS did settle the issue.
As for "Currency Collapse"???
That would not have happened as England had an insatiable DEMAND for Confederate Cotton and Tobacco throughout that War of Northern Aggression and well afterward. Thus England provided Material and Financial Support to the CSA during that conflict. England's textile industry was booming.
The Confederacy would have adopted the World Standard British Gold Sovereign as their Monetary Unit and abandoned their Paper Currency.
(The USA $5 Gold Piece is the same size and equivalent to a Sovereign. In fact every Nation had an equivalent Sovereign denominated in a respective National Currency Unit. I have a collection of Coins from that era. It is rather interesting as it is an actual physical demonstration of the Gold Standard under Pax Brittannia.)
As for Soil Nutrient depletion? The native soils have never been rich in the Southern USA and most fields are useless for most Food Crops. But Cotton is not so demanding. That is why Tobacco and Cotton is grown there to this day.
Bah!!! Fucking Yankee.
Maybe because that wasn't a failed revolution, and it actually changed history?
Revolution is generally considered to be the action of those who want to change things. The Southern states were the ones who revolted at being forced to endure the yoke of the despot, Lincoln.
So in that regard it failed to get its indepence.
By your defintion of revolution, Britain would have been considered the victor in the triumph of the Colonies in their separation from King George.
There's enough deconstruction of the language without ZH posters contributing to it.
Good point mastersnark.
The CSA and Robert E. Lee were fighting to preserve the States Rights Tenth Amendment.
Lincoln's North subverted the Constitution, defeated what the Founders had intended, and set up a Federalist Union with centralized control, upsetting the balance.
The North's victory was a succesful revolution and the USA changed dramatically and profoundly as a result.