But consider: both of these presentations also end up neglecting the very forces that ultimately shaped revolutions in thought and practice.
Social media and new technology were crucial in shaping the revolutions of 2011, just as they shaped industry, finance and mass culture in the preceding decade.
Since Karl Marx bested the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin in a struggle to shape world revolution a century and a half ago, anarchism has undergone a half-dozen resurrections and almost as many deaths.
If you were Britain's most decorated Olympian, who has banked life-changing memories from Sydney to Stratford and helped shape a revolution in cycling in the UK, you'd think it would take something pretty special to impress you.
Global Change And American Leadership To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization.
Whether texted and twittered or papered and pamphleted, the shape of revolution is about the same.
It was his interest in the mechanics of wealth creation that drew him to the engineers and entrepreneurs, such as Intel's Andy Grove, who were shaping the revolution in affordable desktop computing.
Led by Max Hoelz, the rebellion reveals the ways in which religious currents, technological change, crime and negative working-class reactions to the social democratic labor movement shaped the revolution in post-war Germany.
If it doesn't, early containment buys a company some time to try the second approach: shaping the revolution so that the new technology or business model complements, rather than supersedes, the incumbent's.
Paul Mason assesses how new media and a vigorous political culture have helped create and shape these new revolutions.
