For a revolution you need a revolutionary situation in a society, Lenin described two conditions "The bottoms don't want and the tops cannot live in the old way".
It is often connected to food or another word necessity's. That was the case during the "arab spring" and was also the case in 1917 Russia, the main slogan for the Russian revolution being "bread and peace". The Russian people had nothing left to lose and the ruling class had nothing left to give(to sustain their power) thus fulfilling the two conditions.
All you need then is a catalyst. Which in the case of the "arab spring" was when Mohamed Bouazizi set him self on fire.
When it concerns America and mass-surveillance I would see that as a possible catalyst that lacked a revolutionary situation.
What I find even more interesting is that in our time class is not a subject at all. We go along like the concept of social classes was never thought of.
And as for the subject of revolution, we glance over it like a ghost from the past. We act as (a society and a culture) though the current system will last forever although history, as both Stalin and Wells points out, shows us that social and economic systems gets replaced, in many cases by force.
It is often connected to food or another word necessity's. That was the case during the "arab spring" and was also the case in 1917 Russia, the main slogan for the Russian revolution being "bread and peace". The Russian people had nothing left to lose and the ruling class had nothing left to give(to sustain their power) thus fulfilling the two conditions.
All you need then is a catalyst. Which in the case of the "arab spring" was when Mohamed Bouazizi set him self on fire.
When it concerns America and mass-surveillance I would see that as a possible catalyst that lacked a revolutionary situation.