What are the conditions necessary for revolution?

– A ruling class whose power is tenuous because of infighting, and/or presiding over system on the verge of structural collapse.
– The economy no longer works to provide even the most basic survival needs of large sections of the people. The most oppressed are desperate and have nothing to lose.
– A mood among the middle classes of being fed up, angry, disappointed by sliding living standards and unmet expectations, to the point that they would tend to be friendly or neutral if the oppressed rise up.
– An organization that can facilitate, coordinate and direct the outrage of the people toward the real source of their problems, and is capable of leading the kinds of actions necessary to depose the rulers.

I don’t think we’re there yet. But getting closer, especially with the first three.

As for the last condition, could a loose network work, or does it have to be a vanguard party? I can see arguments both ways.

Here are three fragments of drawings. I’m starting on a larger project and it’s taken me a long time to figure out how to proceed. Here are some experiments.

This is my first attempt with Wacom tablet and Illustrator, neither of which I knew anything about how to use. I liked the variable line, but it’s too thick, so small details get lost.

Next I went back to my usual pen on paper. I like the details but it’s a dead line, which is fine for some things, but I wanted this one to look more elegant.

Bingo! A big thanks to Jeff Zugale, who told me that a line in Illustrator can be less than a pixel wide and explained how to make the kind of brush I wanted. Here’s the third version with a nicely varying yet thinner line, done on the Wacom tablet.