Revolutionary Success Quotes



After the first Arab Spring revolution ousting Mubaric, a military dictator, the Egyptians elected a leader, Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi then abused his powers and tried to turn Egypt into a theocracy. Huge popular protests against the Muslim Brotherhood led to el-Sisi leading a military coup where the army took over the government. Then they held elections, el-Sisi resigned from the military, and ran for President and won by a large percentage even though a small proportion of the population voted.


Vladimir Lenin. Early in the Russian Revolution, Trotsky was thought of as the leading and most prestigious member of the revolution while formal positions and constitutions were being developed. Lenin himself thought this reasonable. Later, Stalin would have Trotsky assassinated.


Because of that conservatism he was murdered by the radical IRA in the internecine Irish revolutionist conflicts that followed the Irish Free State winning its independence.