Professor Niall Ferguson (whom I most recently linked here for his critique of US foreign policy on Egypt) now has a few gloomy thoughts about political revolutions.
This sounds familiar, and not because of Ferguson. Haven't I babbled on before about how most modern revolutions end in chaos and tyranny with the notable exception of the American Revolution? (OK, and also sort of England's Glorious Revolution of 1688.) Just look at what happened after the French Revolution ... or the overthrow of the Romanovs in Russia ... or the upheavals in China since the end of the Qing Dynasty. Ferguson is gloomy, but that doesn't mean his point isn't valid.
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