What does it take to be a good revolutionary?

So, I was looking around on wikipedia and I noticed that the definition of revolutionary is: a person who demands fundamental change in power or organizational structures, constitutional change. a person who demands it NOW.

By that definition, and looking at all the out of control drug laws and military spending and what have you, I guess most of us are revolutionaries, but none of us are any good at it. why is that?

>Civil disobedience is only good if the government actually respects its people.
Not necessarily. If civil disobedience means not working the jobs that keeps the tyrants fat and wealthy then it's only a matter of time until it achieves its goal. Violence against civilians is only supposed to scare people into getting back in line, it's not a long term tactic because you can't simply kill off all your workers.

If Assad wants to slaughter the population very soon he's going to find that there's no one left to farm his fields, pump his gas or make his weapons.