Revolution grows from within the oppressor society rather than arriving from outside.

Evidence

The revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society; to the extent that it is cultural action, it cannot fail to correspond to the potentialities of the social entity in which it originated. Every entity develops (or is transformed) within itself, through the interplay of its contradictions. External conditioners, while necessary, are effective only if they coincide with those potentialities. The newness of the revolution is generated within the old, oppressive society; the taking of power constitutes only a decisive moment of the continuing revolutionary process. In a dynamic, rather than static, view of revolution, there is no absolute “before” or “after,” with the taking of power as the dividing line. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 441

Categorization

• XREF: Hegelian-Marxist dialectic of internal contradiction; echoes the working-class autonomy tradition Freire is channeling. — connects to: Radical new demands arise spontaneously at both margins of affluent society, not its center. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2630