George Mason University Political Scientist Jack Goldstone joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about revolutions. Can there be a revolution without violence? Does every revolution need a figurehead? Where are the conditions for a revolution simmering right now? Why is the French Revolution considered a bigger turning point in the history of government than the American Revolution? Is there a revolution underway in Nepal? Answers to these questions and many more await on WIRED Revolution Support.
0:00 Revolution Support
0:16 Rebellion vs. Revolution vs. Civil war
0:41 Marie! The baguettes! Hurry up!
1:25 Nepal
2:05 Deng Xiaoping and China
3:08 Bad Revolutions
4:19 Revolution: Origins
5:36 A revolutionary situation
7:17 Non-violent Revolutions
8:29 Predicting the next revolution
9:52 Che Guevara shirts
11:08 The Haitian Revolution
12:39 Figurehead
13:21 The French Revolution
15:07 Venezuela
17:05 No Taxation Without Representation?
18:25 The Glorious Revolution
20:10 J6
21:10 China and The Cultural Revolution
22:32 The Iranian Revolution
24:57 The bloodiest revolutions of all time
26:16 Arab Spring
Director: Lauren Zeitoun
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Jack Goldstone
Creative Producer: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Chris Eustache
Sound Mixer: Lily Van Leeuwen
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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I don’t understand how J6 is a “revolution” when its goal was simply to keep the current regime in power unlawfully. It was a coup attempt, not a revolution. To be a revolution, you have to actually want to radically change things, you have to want the people at the top to be dethroned and replaced, not solidified. Or was Napoleon’s coup also a revolution?
J6 was not a coup attempt. It was a setup to criminalize the opposition.
Um, not all revolutions have the aim of changing things for the better – that is just what they tell the public.
Not gonna lie, I thought this is Ben Stiller talking about Revolution.
Mr. Goldstone here has a similar as Ben Stiller in my eyes 😅
You shall idolize the revolution that put us into power, but any new revolution against us is forbidden
10:00 I remember seeing Rage Against The Machine singer Zach De La Rocha wearing a Che Guevera shirt. Afterwards they were everywhere it seemed. This was late 90’s though.
The question at 3:09 is silly. Nearly all revolutions have been bad. A better question would be, “have any been good?”
Him saying J6 was a protest is like saying Hannibal Lecter had an eating disorder.
yaşasın marks engels lenin stalin ve mao zedong yoldaşların ışıklı yolu
This guy justified Stalin and Mao’s death tolls by saying it stopped Germany and China is rich now!?!? WTF is this? Slavery was okay because the US got a leg up in the world stage? The holocaust was fine because a,b,c? This guy is deranged
I was expecting to leave a snarky comment about this video but honestly this guy was very fair and measured with his commentary.
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Title: Historian answers revolution questions
First line: “I’m Jack Goldstone and I’m a political scientist”
you lied to us wired
26:09 interesting. When I think of Chinese revolutions the first one I think of is the 1911 Revolution that ended imperial rule
Goldstone – Ah I see this is a left wing video
Want to ignore the genocide. You absolutely shameless foreign agent. Mao was scum
Oh, my! I thought this was Andrew Cuomo.
J6 was a terrorist uprising to overthrow democracy. They wanted a dictatorship.
This Cuomo lookalike lies almost as much as the real one. 😂
Rebellion – People vs Government
Civil War – Government infighting
It’s literally that simple.
To be clear, that’s not to say that members of the government wouldn’t defect to the rebellion, but a civil war would be more like if the Army and the Marines started fighting eachother for control of the country.