It does seem that social upheaval tends to happen when material conditions deteriorate to the point when a critical mass of people that starts to see their situation as being unbearable. Originally, Marx and Engels speculated that socialist revolutions would occur in advanced capitalist societies, but they proved to be the most resilient.
It does seem that social upheaval tends to happen when material conditions deteriorate to the point when a critical mass of people that starts to see their situation as being unbearable. Originally, Marx and Engels speculated that socialist revolutions would occur in advanced capitalist societies, but they proved to be the most resilient.