During the Arab Spring, thousands of Tunisian demonstrators take to the streets of the capital, Tunis, in January 2011, to demand the resignation of the President.
After the disaster of the Arab Spring, the modern myth of revolution initially lost some of its attractiveness, but the myth has been revived again in the wake of the latest wave of mass protests in many countries across the world. The myth goes back primarily to Karl Marx. Because - as Marx, the critic of capitalism and a social theorist maintained - the exploited masses had nothing to lose but their chains, the ruling class would sooner or later inevitably be overthrown. Ironically, the people who were overthrown in Germany in 1989 were none other than those who legitimised their power through the teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Looking at history, though, it has to be said that the masses have seldom chased their rulers away.
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