Not all political mobilization carries the seeds of revolution. This is regardless of the method these agents choose to convey their message of discontent (demonstration, boycott, die-in, road/highway blockades, guerrilla warfare, etc.). For a political movement to be revolutionary, it not only needs to seek the overthrow of a ruling political or economic system as whole but must do so without making concesions along the way (e.g., settle for reformism). Most importantly, a revolution implies moving forward. That is, revolutions are de facto progressive movements that led to the implementation of egalitarian politics. This is in contrast to forms of political mobilization that claim to be revolutionary but are in fact backward. Take the case of the framework utilized by the ultra-right wing EDL in the UK or the conservative Movimiento Nacional por la Familia in Mexico. Whilst both of these movements rely on protests as a form of contestation to what they see as intrusive power institutions, they are in fact backward in their political platform and far from revolutionary for they aim to take society back to a previous era (in the first case, a white Anglo society; in the second, a religious and moralistic form of societal organization).

I think you revolution is an "upgrade" of protest - protest us when a goup showa its disagreement with an issue and revolurion is when a group chanes an issue or solves it.

I wonder if you might use a broader framework to understand why protest/mobilization happens in the first place?

See attached for some ideas

Une révolution ne se développe jamais spontanément, me semble t'il. Depuis plus de deux siècles, que ce soit en France, dans les autres pays européens, en Chine, en Inde, en Afrique, en Amérique du Nord, etc... les révolutions ont été précédées (et préparées) par divers mouvements populaires. Ceux-ci avaient (le plus souvent) discuté de leurs réclamations ou exigences, et même rédigé des programmes de réforme, programmes qui incluaient des transformations de la manière de gouverner et plus généralement de l'Etat lui-même. Sans programme de ce type, les manifestations de rue aboutissent rarement à des transformation des structures techniques, économiques, politiques. Les "protestations de rue" qui ont abouti furent généralement celles qui s'étaient dotées d'un programme politique pour l'avenir.