Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Revolution

Even a casual reading of world history in 19th and 20th century you will not fail to note the impact of revolution as a tool of political change. Whether it succeeds or not, revolutions leave behind many mass graves and immense destruction of infrastructure and life as people have got used to. 
Since there are many other ways of bringing about political change, knowledge and wisdom demand that a revolution should only be an ultimate tool for political change. It's very clear from history that sometimes the good that is intended to be achieved after a revolution may not at all be achieved. In fact sometimes the consequences have been worse against expectation. Just like allowing immature people to handle nuclear weapons, those who very casually use revolution to bring about change are themselves a problem to human well being on earth.
Recent events in the world indicate that this tool is not understood. World leaders should make effort to prevent use of revolutions just like they prevent use of nuclear weapons.