User:Mberk11/Political movement

Political movements are an attempt by a significant group of people to change or adapt a government policy or social value. They are a subset of an overarching social movement, which must include a large group of the population fighting for a change in the current status quo.

A social movement may include movement such as the animal rights movement, black lives matter movement, and the Me Too movement, but they also include revolutionary political movements such as the rise of Nazism, The Bolshevik Revolution, and the Arab Spring. These are all revolutions that forced a new government policy or social agenda for the government by a large sum of the total population. It is crucial that there is a large sum of the population in order to a political movement to be successful in resulting in a revolution or change in the status quo.

While successful political movements that have resulted in revolutionary change are important to mention, there have been failed political movements where the movement did not gain enough traction, or they were oppressed by the power at large to create any actual revolutionary change. The United Partisans Organization (Fareinikte Partizaner Organizatsie, or FPO) that was created during WWII as an armed resistance of Jews against the Nazis was a failed revolution. They did not gain enough members for successful mobilization and subsequent revolutionary action against the Nazis, thereby failed in their hopes to make governmental change.