Social revolution

The term social revolution may have different connotations depending on the speaker.

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In anarchist parlance, "social revolution" is a bottom-up, as opposed to vanguard-led or political, revolution aiming to reorganize all of society. In the words of Peter Kropotkin, "social revolution means the reorganization of the industrial, economic life of the country and consequently also of the entire structure of society."

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Anarchist - Peter Kropotkin

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In the Trotskyist movement, the term "social revolution" refers to an upheaval in which existing property relations are smashed. The American Civil War, as a result of which slavery was abolished, is often cited as an example of a social revolution. Social revolutions are contrasted with purely political revolutions in which the government is replaced, or the form of government altered, but in which property relations are predominantly left intact.

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Trotskyist - American Civil War - Slavery - Political revolution

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More generally, the term "social revolution" made be used to refer to a massive change in some element of society, for instance the civil rights movement in the United States.

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Civil rights movement - United States

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