Genuine revolutions are always a surprise, because they erupt from the people who are ignored and excluded by the power system. Without funding. Without mainstream media attention. Their movements are built by the discarded and deprived, and the marginalized; by the people for whom power has utter contempt, and whom power assumes are thoroughly incapable and neutralized by hopelessness.
Genuine revolutions grow in the gutters and back alleys and basements of cities, and in the remote mountains and tiny villages in the countrysides; not in hotel conference rooms or on academic panel discussions. They do not grow by financial backing, but by the lack of it. They do not grow by media attention, but by media blackout.