There is no need to call for a revolution. It already happened decades ago. There is only a need to complete it.

A revolution does not take place when one group replaces another in power. That's a coup. Those take place all the time in our country and others but there is no impact on the condition of the people. The only thing that changes is who reaps the benefits of the people's work.

The sine qua non of a real revolution is a change in the consciousness of the people. Those who were blind to the moral bankruptcy of the current system can finally see. Those who were deluded into thinking that there were no better alternatives return to their senses. Those who believed they had too much at stake in the status quo to rebel recognize they have nothing to lose.

Like many millions around the world in the late 1960s, I awoke to the realities of this system in my teens. Many in my era were part of a huge wave that almost overwhelmed the fortress. But the walls only shook. They did not collapse. When we did not succeed, the defenders inside the fortress counterattacked with a vengeance born of fear and desperation for they recognized that something very fundamental had changed: the validity of their system had been destroyed.

When that first wave of rebellion failed to knock down the citadel, the beneficiaries of this inhumane system decided to double-down. Their strategy, crystallized in the Powell Memorandum, was to quit compromising on policy at the same time as they increased their efforts at reversing the change in consciousness that had taken place.

As long as advanced economies managed to provide a majority of citizens with a comfortable life, they held their own.
While each generation of young people picked up on the critique of the existing system that had blossomed in the 60s and waves of protest occasionally threatened the fortress of power, but the rebellions were intermittent and largely ineffective.

What the elites failed to perceive was that the 60s had succeeded in eliminating the validty of the existing system. Only so long as the current system provided some level of comfort to a majority of citizens could it hope to quell unrest.

That all ended in 2008. The system demonstrated that it was unable to survive, i.e. continue the enrichment of the elites, without imposing not just stagnation but even life-threatening decline on the middle and working classes.

In the Middle Ages in Europe, all societal forces combined to convince workers that a monarchial system was ordained by an omnipotent and omniscient god. The oppression visited upon the majority by a tiny minority was accepted by the oppressed as the decree of some Almighty.

In the current age, we are told that Capitalism is the "only alternative" ordained by the Invisible Hand.

I have not believed such bullshit since I was 15 in 1968. Our Millennial sisters and brothers do not believe such bullshit in 2016, and their skepticism is not only akin to my Boomer disdain for Capitalism, it is also related to it, even born of it.

The signs that the waves of rejection of the system are getting higher and higher are everywhere. Rejection of the leaders, messengers and enforcers of the status quo is spreading. Even more important, people are taking action on their rejection of the status quo.

The current system has no validity beyond those very few who benefit materially from it. At the same time, those in control foolishly press harder and harder against those of us on the Outside to the point that our very survival is at stake.

The revolution took place long ago when we discarded the silly notion that our system possessed some sort of validity or moral worthiness.

Now it's up to us and our youngers to finish the job.