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One of the most important lessons I learned from reading Bertrand de Jouvenel’s On Power is that revolutions happen against weak regimes, not against strong ones. This is not the romanticized version of history that we frequently get from the media or the schools. George III, Louis XVI, and Nicholas II have all been portrayed as terrible tyrants over which a ragtag team of plucky revolutionaries managed, against all odds, to be victorious. (more…)


