“The mother of revolution and crime is poverty"(Aristotle)
Do you agree?

Revolution and crime usually occur when a person or a particular group of people demand a change to their current economical state, standard of living or to simply voice out their discontentment to the authorities.

Revolution involves uprising or rebellions of a group of people with a common purpose. Their main objective is to force the government to quickly resolve their pending problems. Revolutionists are usually the lower class citizens who are powerless and therefore have little or no rights to interfere into the government’s decisions and thus, have no other means to improve their livelihood other than to resort to such desperate measures to seek attention from the authorities. Such revolutions generally lead to economical standstills, damaged properties and future economical problems as the finances that may be used to improve the country have to be channeled to repairs and humanitarian works. However, a revolution is inevitable and is also often deem as the most effective way if one want to bring about a change to one’s society.

Crime is viewed as a deviant behavior that violates the norms, prescribing how humans ought to behave. (wiki) A crime can be a trivia case of theft or a comparably more serious case of terrorism. Similar to the start of a revolution, a crime is usually committed by people who are in frantic desire for something, usually to improve ones life financially.

To a large extent, I agree that “The mother of revolution and crime is poverty". Poverty is usually the trigger that gives rise to revolutions and crimes. Finances are one of the most fundamental requirements one needs in order to fulfill basic needs to survive. When one is trapped in the vicious poverty cycle, the basic human instinct would set to think of alternatives to free oneself from such routine.

Revolution is a way how people show their defiance to the authorities when they are dissatisfied with their living conditions or when they want to bring about a change to their lives. As the saying goes, “united we stand; divided we fall”. As locals unite to create chaos within a country, to end further damages, the government is forced to listen to the opinions of the people and set about changes to improve their lives. This is clearly the most effective way for the government to meet the demands of locals. For example, the 1917 October revolution in Russia is sparked off by discontentment of the lower class citizens in Russia as there are serious cases of food shortages, unemployment and in short, people are living in poverty within the country which the local government did not attend to. The revolution had proven successful as after a week of rioting and confrontations, the authorities gave in and brought about changes to their lives. This shows that poverty is indeed the main trigger of a revolution and without it, the authorities might not give attention to the problems the poor are facing.

Crimes are often committed by people in their desperate attempt to obtain money in the fastest and simplest ways.

Poverty is defined as the state of being poor and lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts. Therefore, the lack of finances for one to live a mediocre life causes one to be irrational and seek different illicit methods or crimes in a desperate attempt to obtain money in the fastest and simplest way. Base on a research study, there are evidence to date that low wages and unemployment make less-educated men more likely to turn to crime. (http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/crimwage.htm). Another major crime that one may commit due to poverty is terrorism. For example, Iraqi militants are offered US$1 million dollars by Osama to give up their life as a suicide bomber during the 911 attack murdering thousands. In a third world country where hundreds die everyday due to hunger and poverty, who can resist the million dollar offer to free their family of the poverty cycle forever? This evidently shows how severe poverty can cause one to submit and sacrifice their lives to a tyrant that masterminds the mass murder of thousands of New Yorkers.

However, other than poverty, there are other factors that give rise to crime and revolutions. Some factors are greed, socio political instability, religious and racial concerns. These troubles normally drive people to the edge and compel them to react impulsively or illogically. When one is beleaguered, we often think unwisely leading to undesirable behaviors that generally lead to unexpected actions like committing a crime out of a spur moment of desperation that will cause a lifetime of regret and guilt. Though there are other factors leading to revolutions and crime, most of these factors are also caused by poverty itself as be it political, social or religious instability, when one is poor and have no other alternative methods to improve their lives, they would resort to violence leading to religious, political and social instability. Thus, since the poverty is also the root causes these instabilities; I agree with the statement that the mother of revolution and crime is poverty.

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