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Some revolutionaries like Pol Pot are in it purely for the destruction.

Others use it as a path to gain the money and power they couldn’t get by operating within the system.
With that said, it is true that the goal of any revolution is to change society.

The headline leads to the easy assumption that Davos has now coopted Occupy...but given the contemporary prominence of socialist candidates it is arguable as to who has coopted whom.
By the way, the body of White’s article implicitly describes the Long March through the Institutions, the same mechanism by which student activists became tenured radicals.

After all, there are many ideologies that aren’t getting a hearing at Davos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_…
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