Revolution and Violence

Before few decades ago, there was not such a concept that revolutions could take place without violence. Revolutions would rather refer to coup d’état or rebellion. The reason that revolution only arose in violence was that the media did not exist. Nowadays, politicians are afraid of the media because the media delivers the news where everyone gets to know. Without media, people only could have acted directly to government to show their opinions which easily led to violence.

With media, people are able to express their opinions through the media much easier and others can involve into acts much easier. Most successful and well-known cases are Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. They carried out a non-violence movement against British and American rule, respectively, making successful political revolution.