February 8, 2011

#2,748

Between the causes of a revolution and its realization in actions ideologies insert themselves which end up determining the course and even the nature of events.
“Ideas” do not “cause” revolutions, but channel them.

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2 comments:

  1. The original Spanish is:

    Entre las causas de una revolución y su realización en hechos se insertan ideologías que acaban determinando el curso y hasta la naturaleza de los acontecimientos.
    Las “ideas” no “causan” las revoluciones, pero las encauzan.

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  2. There is a play on words here between causar, meaning "to cause," and encauzar, meaning "to channel," that cannot be replicated in English.

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