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What is a Revolution by :Comrade Benson Amukpo

Posted on 13th April 2016 at 13th April 2016 by niyi aborisade

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TONIGHT EDITORIAL What is a Revolution? Various forms of revolution have occurred through human history. Nearly all of the modern states in the world today are products of revolutions. In tonight editorial I have elected to explain what a revolution is and to discriminate between the various forms of revolution as witnessed in history. For want of space I will be brief in this treatise. A revolution is basically an abrupt, fundamental and radical change that repudiate or overthrow an existing political, social or economic order in favour of prefarable system. Of interest to me is the definition that sees a revolution as the repudiation or rejection of a political order through mass mobilisation or direction action if you will. Consequently I will not concern myself with industrial or cultural revolutions.
All revolutions have certain characteristics or essences: ■ They are Sudden or drammatic. ■ Informed by popular ideology. ■ It is a form of class struggle between the elites and the proletariats. ■ It is ushers in sudden change. But what characterises the periodd of pre-revolutionary crises. Often in history patriotic men and women arrogate to themselves the noble enterprise of overthrowing a political system that has become so corrupt and inept. Men and women take to the street when there is harsh prevailing economic, social and political order. When the means and mode of production has decayed, when the gulf between the haves and the haves-not widened and when leaders have disregard to the rule of law, the citizenry would refuse to sit and watch nonchallantly the erosion and decay of the economic, social and political order. They take actions to effect change through mass action which in most cases involve the use of violence. The political, economic and social order in Nigeria today are incentives to such form of revolution. Let us not be misunderstand what a revolution is. A revolution is not identical with evolution. An evolution is the gradual transformation of an existing order. A revolution seek to overthrow an existing order communating in the emergence of a new order. The current war against corruption in Nigeria is NOT a revolution as someone has inferred on this forum. Revolution, as I have said is informed by exploitation and oppression of the peasants, the working class, the proletariats, the ordinary men and women that exist the lowest typologies of the national food web. Thus it is the sense of suffering and the consciousness of injustice that engenders peoples revolution. Consequently it is the oppressed and those that are experience sweltering injustices that mobilises themselves to topple the existing order as it is inimical to their existence as people. It is therefore crystal clear that Buhari cannot lead the masses in a revolution. It is not that his hands are tied. It is because he is an integral part of the ruling elites. The best he can achieve is a little reform here and a little reform there but the corrupt system still in place. A case in hand is the on going 2016 budget negotiations. We should not expect anything better from the current system. It is abysmally corrupt. A bad tree cannot produce a good fruit. Nigerians must now realise that it was the people of Russia that decided to change the system that was treacherous and inimical to their existence when they resolved the Tsars question through popular revolt. And when the monarch was becoming too corrupt and vindictive, it was also the French that took on the noble task of overthrowing the existing political order that was unfavorable to them. Whether Nigerians sees the present political, economic and social systems as favourable or unfavourable is hard to say. But they should take a cue from history if they consider the present system of things as unfavourable, unacceptable, unsustainable and must be done away with by any means necessary. This choice is theirs to make. Pastor Benson.TONIGHT EDITORIAL What is a Revolution? Various forms of revolution have occurred through human history. Nearly all of the modern states in the world today are products of revolutions. In tonight editorial I have elected to explain what a revolution is and to discriminate between the various forms of revolution as witnessed in history. For want of space I will be brief in this treatise. A revolution is basically an abrupt, fundamental and radical change that repudiate or overthrow an existing political, social or economic order in favour of prefarable system. Of interest to me is the definition that sees a revolution as the repudiation or rejection of a political order through mass mobilisation or direction action if you will. Consequently I will not concern myself with industrial or cultural revolutions. All revolutions have certain characteristics or essences: ■ They are Sudden or drammatic. ■ Informed by popular ideology. ■ It is a form of class struggle between the elites and the proletariats. ■ It is ushers in sudden change. But what characterises the periodd of pre-revolutionary crises. Often in history patriotic men and women arrogate to themselves the noble enterprise of overthrowing a political system that has become so corrupt and inept. Men and women take to the street when there is harsh prevailing economic, social and political order. When the means and mode of production has decayed, when the gulf between the haves and the haves-not widened and when leaders have disregard to the rule of law, the citizenry would refuse to sit and watch nonchallantly the erosion and decay of the economic, social and political order. They take actions to effect change through mass action which in most cases involve the use of violence. The political, economic and social order in Nigeria today are incentives to such form of revolution. Let us not be misunderstand what a revolution is. A revolution is not identical with evolution. An evolution is the gradual transformation of an existing order. A revolution seek to overthrow an existing order communating in the emergence of a new order. The current war against corruption in Nigeria is NOT a revolution as someone has inferred on this forum. Revolution, as I have said is informed by exploitation and oppression of the peasants, the working class, the proletariats, the ordinary men and women that exist the lowest typologies of the national food web. Thus it is the sense of suffering and the consciousness of injustice that engenders peoples revolution. Consequently it is the oppressed and those that are experience sweltering injustices that mobilises themselves to topple the existing order as it is inimical to their existence as people. It is therefore crystal clear that Buhari cannot lead the masses in a revolution. It is not that his hands are tied. It is because he is an integral part of the ruling elites. The best he can achieve is a little reform here and a little reform there but the corrupt system still in place. A case in hand is the on going 2016 budget negotiations. We should not expect anything better from the current system. It is abysmally corrupt. A bad tree cannot produce a good fruit. Nigerians must now realise that it was the people of Russia that decided to change the system that was treacherous and inimical to their existence when they resolved the Tsars question through popular revolt. And when the monarch was becoming too corrupt and vindictive, it was also the French that took on the noble task of overthrowing the existing political order that was unfavorable to them. Whether Nigerians sees the present political, economic and social systems as favourable or unfavourable is hard to say. But they should take a cue from history if they consider the present system of things as unfavourable, unacceptable, unsustainable and must be done away with by any means necessary. This choice is theirs to make. Pastor Benson.TONIGHT EDITORIAL What is a Revolution? Various forms of revolution have occurred through human history. Nearly all of the modern states in the world today are products of revolutions. In tonight editorial I have elected to explain what a revolution is and to discriminate between the various forms of revolution as witnessed in history. For want of space I will be brief in this treatise. A revolution is basically an abrupt, fundamental and radical change that repudiate or overthrow an existing political, social or economic order in favour of prefarable system. Of interest to me is the definition that sees a revolution as the repudiation or rejection of a political order through mass mobilisation or direction action if you will. Consequently I will not concern myself with industrial or cultural revolutions. All revolutions have certain characteristics or essences: ■ They are Sudden or drammatic. ■ Informed by popular ideology. ■ It is a form of class struggle between the elites and the proletariats. ■ It is ushers in sudden change. But what characterises the periodd of pre-revolutionary crises. Often in history patriotic men and women arrogate to themselves the noble enterprise of overthrowing a political system that has become so corrupt and inept. Men and women take to the street when there is harsh prevailing economic, social and political order. When the means and mode of production has decayed, when the gulf between the haves and the haves-not widened and when leaders have disregard to the rule of law, the citizenry would refuse to sit and watch nonchallantly the erosion and decay of the economic, social and political order. They take actions to effect change through mass action which in most cases involve the use of violence. The political, economic and social order in Nigeria today are incentives to such form of revolution. Let us not be misunderstand what a revolution is. A revolution is not identical with evolution. An evolution is the gradual transformation of an existing order. A revolution seek to overthrow an existing order communating in the emergence of a new order. The current war against corruption in Nigeria is NOT a revolution as someone has inferred on this forum. Revolution, as I have said is informed by exploitation and oppression of the peasants, the working class, the proletariats, the ordinary men and women that exist the lowest typologies of the national food web. Thus it is the sense of suffering and the consciousness of injustice that engenders peoples revolution. Consequently it is the oppressed and those that are experience sweltering injustices that mobilises themselves to topple the existing order as it is inimical to their existence as people. It is therefore crystal clear that Buhari cannot lead the masses in a revolution. It is not that his hands are tied. It is because he is an integral part of the ruling elites. The best he can achieve is a little reform here and a little reform there but the corrupt system still in place. A case in hand is the on going 2016 budget negotiations. We should not expect anything better from the current system. It is abysmally corrupt. A bad tree cannot produce a good fruit. Nigerians must now realise that it was the people of Russia that decided to change the system that was treacherous and inimical to their existence when they resolved the Tsars question through popular revolt. And when the monarch was becoming too corrupt and vindictive, it was also the French that took on the noble task of overthrowing the existing political order that was unfavorable to them. Whether Nigerians sees the present political, economic and social systems as favourable or unfavourable is hard to say. But they should take a cue from history if they consider the present system of things as unfavourable, unacceptable, unsustainable and must be done away with by any means necessary. This choice is theirs to make. Pastor Benson.13th April 2016

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