I am going to tell you that all genuine revolutions are built on the same basic foundation, but you shouldn’t believe anyone who makes sweeping generalizations like that.
I am going to tell you that all genuine revolutions are built by local decisionmaking bodies (councils, let’s call them) that then network or federate together to build a larger, revolutionary society.
And I’ll start with the saddest example I can think of.
All power to the soviets.



Margaret is rad. If you like history podcasts, I highly recommend her show Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. It’s one of the few podcasts I never miss an episode of.