tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5221719.post950600893843891348..comments2024-02-16T19:15:30.213-05:00Comments on Brian's Coffeehouse: Cairo's Urban YouthBrian Ulrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06986631330360998134noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5221719.post-17281045332282479932013-02-07T08:37:00.926-05:002013-02-07T08:37:00.926-05:00Much of the more radical agitation preceding the R...Much of the more radical agitation preceding the Russian Revolution came from working class university students who lacked the social capital & access to integrate into the czarist "knowledge economy." Sergey Nechayev, whose father was a waiter and sign painter, was certainly one of these. If you look at May 1968, or pretty much any pre-revolutionary situation by demographic, radicalism and commitment to confront and combat police repression in the streets is inversely proportional to the extent to which that group has vested interests in the status quo. So, it follows that older working and middle class people would be a bulwork of, rather than the leading edge of any revolutionary situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5221719.post-51218524490043731712013-02-06T13:41:34.572-05:002013-02-06T13:41:34.572-05:00Was it youth-oriented, and does that age factor ev...Was it youth-oriented, and does that age factor even matter?Brian Ulrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06986631330360998134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5221719.post-40786296651719830502013-02-06T08:01:49.486-05:002013-02-06T08:01:49.486-05:00There was certainly a rough street culture in Pari...There was certainly a rough street culture in Paris which helped power the increasing radicalism of the French Revolution; Ca ira! Ca ira! Ca ira!Steve Muhlbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136005762428407135noreply@blogger.com