1.Social movements have neither increased nor decreased over the past thousand years. They have always been a significant and constant part of the texture of any political system.
2.Because social movements have flexibility in terms of tactics and are loosely organized, they are vulnerable to manipulation by self-serving leaders or can be converted to causes different from the original cause that brought people together
3.Contemporary social movements have found greater visibility and success because they are able to form international networks and broaden their support strata
4.Today, most social movements champion causes on the ideological RIGHT. They use the internet to tighten commitment to the movement
5.The Ukrainian Orange Revolution is an example of apparent success of a social movement which then quickly deteriorated into something other than what the demonstrators had hoped for
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I would say the most successfull social movement was the start of the U.S. until around the 1900's. The U.S surpassed all existing countries in only a few hundred years. There is wording in the U.S Constitution that was supposed to limit government powers. We had a few good decades in the 40's and 50's where working made a good living, but little by little the elite vs worker wages gap widened, then governmen introduced federal entightlements or ideological LEFT causes, which the government supplied a service but with tremendous waste and corruption by politicians. Now we can't tell the difference between either side and they refuse to work together, placing there own wealth, careers ahead of the common working class and the good of the country.