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‘In a successful revolution, the social movement becomes the new source of authority and respectability, and opposition to its values is defined as counterrevolutionary [sic].* In other instances, the movement obtains power through secession.’**

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‘Le Bon suggested that in a period of widespread discontent crowd action serves to destroy an old order in preparation for a new one. Social movements help to build the new order.’****

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**[sic (not succession); ie withdrawal into a new social system]

***– ibid: [[Encyclopaedia Britannica 16:] 616

****– ibid: [[Encyclopaedia Britannica 16:] 617

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