In
libertarian socialist and
anarchist parlance, a
social revolution is a bottom-up, as opposed to a
vanguard party-led or purely political, revolution aiming to reorganize all of society (see
Spanish Revolution). In the words of
Alexander Berkman, "social revolution means the reorganization of the industrial, economic life of the country and consequently also of the
entire structure of
society." More generally, the term "social revolution" may be used to refer to a massive change in society, for instance the
French Revolution, the
American Civil Rights Movement and the 1960
hippie or
counterculture reformation on
religious belief,
personal identity,
freedom of speech, music and
arts,
fashion,
alternative technology or
environmentalism and decentralised media.