political revolution

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, political revolution has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Morbid | Podcast (Sep 2025). Referenced as the ideological justification claimed by militant groups and the SLA for violence and demands.

In political science, a revolution is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic, or religious structures. According to the sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elements at their core: (a) efforts to change the political regime that draw on a competing vision of a just order, (b) a notable degree of informal or formal mass mobilization, and (c) efforts to force change through noninstitutionalized actions such as mass demonstrations, pr