When is revolution justified?

Question

At what point do you believe that the people are justified in civil uprising and the overthrow of their government? How bad would things have to get before you yourself would be willing to revolt?

Answer 1

When a certain class of people no longer have regard for the masses.

Answer 2

When done smartly, stealthily with thought and without bloodshed.

Answer 3

Here's the best laid out arguement:

Sorry for the cut and paste - link is below.  Here is your Preamble to the Declaration of Independance:

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

Answer 4

If you witnessed the ordeal that people are subjected to in North Korea, Burma, Sudan and under other dictatorships, you'd instantly realize why there needs to be an immediate revolt.

I believe revolutions are justified when the rights of an individual human being are ignored and human beings become properties of the state and not the other way around.

Your question would be best answered by someone who has been through a system that revolted or that is working to bring about a revolutionary change to the status quo enjoyed by vastly corrupt governments. I don't believe this can be learned  through some forums, or reading academic books. You would actually have to experience it.

Answer 5

The way things would have to be would be if all property were privatized and all land in the possession of corporations and a Corporate Police and military force had been put in place of regular police forces. The people would rebel as the army and police force would not have to answer for anything done to them and would be there just to serve corporate interests with no means of oversight.

Answer 6

Reading the American Revolution, I find the then Americans had little choice but to revolt. The oppression was overwhelming and the taxes were beyond belief.

Answer 7

At the point when the basic freedoms are reduced or removed.  

Which is coming very soon.

It is time for a 2nd American Revolution.  Just letting the government get on the gallows,put the noose around their own necks and put their hand on the trap door leaver.

Answer 8

When you have enough people who agree then the mass will join but unless one has a better plan you should learn how to write.