Judging Arab uprisings: Thus Spoke Chairman Mao

I came across this from Mao's "A Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan":  A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it can't be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained, and magnanimous.  A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."