{"id":780,"date":"2011-02-08T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=780"},"modified":"2011-02-08T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T02:02:11","slug":"revolution-its-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Revolution: It&#8217;s back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Hah, and you thought all the fun ended when the Berlin Wall fell.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/egyptianliberty\/egyptian-flag.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/egyptianliberty\/egyptian-flag550x1175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As most of you of a certain age will recall, a boatload of American right-wing triumphalists declared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/subject\/philosophy\/works\/us\/fukuyama.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the end of history&#8221;<\/a> around 1989 or &#8217;90, right about the time the old Soviet &#8220;satellite states&#8221; were overthrown by vast popular movements and took the xUSSR down with them. Along with Dr. Fukuyama&#8217;s famous screed, there were a whole host of others who also declared the era of revolution to be over.<\/p>\n<p><em>Uh, ohhhhhhh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/egyptianliberty\/egyptian-flag.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">medium-res color .jpg image, <\/a><\/strong>704kb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hah, and you thought all the fun ended when the Berlin Wall fell. As most of you of a certain age will recall, a boatload of American right-wing triumphalists declared &#8220;the end of history&#8221; around 1989 or &#8217;90, right about the time the old Soviet &#8220;satellite states&#8221; were overthrown by vast popular movements and took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,82],"tags":[301,306,303,129],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-middle-east","tag-egypt","tag-egyptian-flag","tag-mubarak","tag-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}