A process of political change may move from one class to another during its course.
- Explanation. A political struggle that begins with a decision within existing standards may expand into a struggle over particular civilisation elements or over a coherent set of such elements. Conversely, an extensive pursuit of change may be limited, divided or absorbed within existing standards and institutions as a result of resistance, limited power bases, loss of a support base or other circumstances. The class occupied by a process of political change is therefore not a fixed property of that process.
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