[sergeantdave]

Can’t think of a single example of a university uprising/revolution that succeeded in overthrowing a national government. University revolutionaries are weak, noodle arm clods with brains full of mush

[MinorityRepublican]

The Bolshevik Revolution was led entirely by educated intellectuals—professional revolutionaries rather than laborers—so none of the key 1917 leaders emerged from union leadership or long-term factory work, even though they mobilized workers to seize power.

Lenin was a university-trained lawyer and full-time Marxist theorist; Trotsky was a journalist, writer, and revolutionary intellectual; and Stalin, though without a university degree, was seminary-educated and worked primarily as an editor, theorist, and professional party organizer rather than as a laborer or union leader.