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Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all
-Thomas Kuhn
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Political Revolutions Aim To Change Political Institutions

Thomas Kuhn
Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all
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