EDSA was not a revolution

ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS (First part of a series on ‘Retaking EDSA’) A WEEK from now on February 25, a small minority of Filipino society will again congregate at EDSA to celebrate what was labeled as a revolution. It is about time to burst the bubble and tell these people that what they are celebrating is not a revolution. A revolution is defined by Jeff Goodwin as “any and all instances in which a state or a political regime is overthrown and hereby transformed by a popular movement in an irregular, extraconstitutional and/or violent fashion.” He further avers that “revolutions entail not only mass mobilization and regime change, but also more or less rapid and fundamental social, economic...