Originally written for Bahá’í Perspectives:
Continued from Part 1
Classical scholar Alexis de Tocqueville differentiated between three types of revolutions.
1) political revolutions
2) sudden and violent revolutions that seek not only to establish a new political system but to transform an entire society
3) slow but sweeping transformations of the entire society that take several generations to bring about [...]
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Viva la Revolución, Part II
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