Of Coups and Revolutions

The 1932 coup in Thailand is labeled as a revolution for one important fact. It led to the replacement of an absolute monarchy by a constitutional monarchy.

On the other hand, the 2014 coup remained a coup, despite the fact that it led to the ouster of a caretaker government led by Yingluck Shinawatra.

Earlier, a similar political upheaval in 2006 was also labeled a coup, even if it is a culmination of a year-long political crisis that led to the ouster of Thaksin Shinawatra.

We should take a leaf from Thailand, a non-Western country, and a veteran in these kinds of things, and be more restrained in labeling our political transitions as revolutionary.

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If you say that EDSA is a revolution because it achieved its goals, then it behooves to ask. Who planned it to a point that as if it had a blue-print?

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