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"poor, underfunded people make very bad revolutions."

Depends what you mean by bad. Violent? Yes. But violence in revolutions is often a defensive response to existing violence. Violence usually occurs after all other alternatives have been tried.

Or perhaps you mean that revolutions don't work. If they didn't work, there wouldn't be so much work put into crushing them, suppressing them, and maintaining the dominant narrative that they never work. Revolutions always create change, often a positive and negative mix. Change is not easy. But revolutions do create change, and often the backlash and sabotage that comes from the oppressors is what creates a corrupt government.

For example, in the Haitian Revolution, poor, underfunded enslaved black people rose up and freed themselves and established their own country. The history of France and the United States' backlash against them for doing this explains the deep poverty the country is trapped in to this day.

We will be studying the birth of democracy next. Guess how Greek democracy was formed?