Must all revolutions have a Thermidorian cooling down?

[heiss93]

Crane Brinton argues that all revolutions follow a circular pattern from liberal reformism to radicalism, thermidoran reaction, and eventually restoration. It is a bit like the Hegelian negation of the negation since the "restoration of the old regime", is on a higher level than the original state.

While Brinton's model is a bit mechanical, it is true that revolutionary fervor and enthusiasm eventually died down in pretty much all bourgeois democratic and most proletarian revolutions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Revolution

[el_chavista]

This part is intriguing:

These revolutionists have hitherto [the attainment of power] been acting as an organized and nearly unanimous group, but with the attainment of power it is clear that they are not united.I have always suspected the petty bourgeoisie of having to do with the deviation of the left revolutions: The CPSU's apparatchiki, Zhou Enlai (the only aristocrat in the CC of the CPC) and his dolphin Deng Xiaoping, the Latin American nationalist revolutionaries. All of them are representatives of the petty bourgeoisie.

[ZeroNowhere]

People who accuse history of having laws do her a great disservice.