Are violent revolutions successful or are they illusions?
Even when violent revolutions are successful at achieving political freedom, they usually fail to achieve economic justice at the same time. In most cases, the old economic system of oppression is replaced not by justice, but by a redesigned system of economic oppression. Example: In America, we went from freedom for black slaves to economic sharecropping, legal segregation, prison gangs and lynching. As a result, even political freedom is limited or soon lost. Even the white abolitionists who sincerely fought to end slavery and with the help of a war won that battle, did not want the freed slaves to move North in large numbers and live next to them.
A really successful revolution needs both political freedom and economic justice. Without both, one elite group replaces another elite group; supposed change is illusory.
Because of the limited success of violent revolutions, every American church, every Haitian church needs to create a biblical theology and a specific applied program of kingdom of God economic justice. Begin by thinking cooperatives, not traditional capitalism or socialism. Study the HCDF model and the Mondragon model. Study Jubilee justice. Study Nehemiah 5.
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