From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

Such is the nature of revolution, that once begun, it is hard to end; at least for everyone. I have been witness to an office revolution that was originally caused by a spectacularly bad manager. Everyone had great discontents and these were generally known. What was missing was some action to set things over the edge. Of course this could be some 0utrage by the manager, but might also be the act of a praticed revolutionary. In this case, enter the revolutionary. A practiced hand at office politics, this individual had twice before conducted revolutionary actions in the workplace. Once to oust his boss and take her place, once with little effect on behalf of others more agrieved. This effort would be the third such effort. For some time he had been willing to follow the banner of another, but took no action on his own.

Enter another, more radical revolutionary. He proposed a more radical agenda with no widespread support.

Concerned that this more radical revolutionary might take the day, if only because he was the only one acting, our more experienced revolutionary decided to act to produce a more moderate revolution. Skilled with the various arts of politics, the moderate won the action of the whole office, and with some bumps, revolution was achieved. However, the radical got little if any of his agenda. Others advanced their agenda broadly, sometimes too hurridly, but the radical got nothing. So he continued to foment revolution, but as a radical cell disconnected from his peers, and indeed against his peers. Our moderate revolutionary now found himself in the role of a counter-revolutionary, like Washington putting down the Wiskey Rebellion.