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By Alan Marston, 3 February 2010
 
In the end there's only one sound that poligarches fear, the raw cry of mass protest from the street below.
 
I believe this is one rule people under 50 years old have not learned, thinking instead a mass outbreak of protest on the internet or at an election is sufficient to force change in a political-economy. Wrong, those protests are manageable, comfortably so, profitably so.
 
The thing is, and this I have learned from many tough experiences, all forms of protest are manageable, except the mass street protest. Neither the organisers, participants nor vilified objects of a protest are able to control or direct it once it reaches critical mass … and becomes a bomb … and does effect change.
 
But, and there is always a but, in the end it takes high explosives to shake loose long-standing, even if rotten, foundations - including a society's. Social, economic, personal change is needed, wanted and even pleaded for by many. It will be delivered to us one day, over the ruins of much we assumed was eternal.
 
 
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