Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET January 2017 Political Science
Who believed that the success of a revolution occurs when it is limited to the political and not extending to the social?
ACrane Brinton
BV.I. Lenin
CHannah Arendt ✓ Correct
DMahatma Gandhi
Correct answer: (C) Hannah Arendt — The thinker who held that a revolution succeeds when it stays political and does not extend into the social is Hannah Arendt, so the answer is Hannah Arendt.
Explanation
★The thinker who held that a revolution succeeds when it stays political and does not extend into the social is Hannah Arendt, so the answer is Hannah Arendt.
★She developed this argument in her work On Revolution.
★Arendt praised the American Revolution for keeping its aim on founding free political institutions.
★She faulted the French Revolution for being swallowed by the social question of poverty and want.
★For her, once a revolution tries to solve social and economic misery directly, it tends to end in terror.
★So lasting success comes from building political freedom, not from chasing social transformation.
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