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Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia and an editorial board member at Dissent. He is co-author of a new book on the craft of mass mobilization, This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. He can be reached via the website www.thisisanuprising.org.
Mass uprisings like the one that brought down the Soviet bloc are neither as rare—nor as spontaneous—as they first appear.
Why should those worth hundreds of millions pay tax at the same rate as those who are middle class?