The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.

Out of the 6.5 billion people on earth, about 852 million people are hungry, and this hunger takes the lives of 6 million children each year. Living on footpaths, eating from garbage bins or not eating at all- this is the face of poverty we see around us. But is there more to poverty than meets the eye? Is it after all poverty that fuels the drive of destruction throughout our world?

"Poverty causes crime". An expression heard much too often. It is true to a large extent that poverty is indeed the root of crimes and there are several reasons for this. Firstly, the poor need to steal in order to survive.Jobless, homeless- their only way of eating or clothing themselves is by theft.Crime is a risk the poor are more than willing to take as, if they suceed, they would have some money at hand and if they fail, would lose nothing, as they have nothing to lose in the first place.However, apart from survival, anger and hatered (possibily fueled by jealously) towards the rich could also be a reason for such crimes. Assault, property damage, even death- are outcomes of this class divide between the rich and poor, which we can see clearly in Indonesia.Indonesia has high crime rates- most of which affect Chinese owned businesses and companies. This could be seen as an act of hatered towards the rich chinese in the country by the relatively poor locals.

However, poverty is not the only reason for crimes. Crimes committed by teenagers can be seen as rebellious acts or simply immature acts ( teenage sex,drugs,alcohol,theft). Reasons for these could be the impacts of broken homes or bad company. Also, many believe that claiming poverty is the cause of crime is in itself,crime, as claim makes it seem as if poverty is an acceptable reason for criminal acts.
Yet again, these causes are seen more in developed countries, where crime is not an act of survival. This in itself(developed countries seen as rich countires) shows that poverty is indeed the mother of crime.

History is filled with revolutions, from the French to the Mexican and to the Chinese. What then has poverty got to do with revolutions? Take for examplt the mexian Revolution in 1910. Mexica then had an extremely corrput government whcih brought about sever poverty. The rich became richer, poor became poorer and the gap between the classes further widened. Having had enough, Mexicans living in poverty started a revolution against their goverment.
This is similar to the Russian Revolution against the Tsars, where peasants buried in poverty became revolutionaries against their gorvenment.

However, poverty was the reason for all revolutions. For example, revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Udam Singh and Sukhdev fought against Britsih rule not due to poverty, but mainly due to the passion for a free India- where Indians can finally be given the rights of human beings rather than that of dogs, where toture and unjust against people will cease. This revolution was for freedom, rights and,to a certain extent, revenge.

Poverty therefore does play an exceptionaly big role in crime and revolution, but it was, and is, not the only cause for both.Sadly,