Pre-revolutionary social ills are also resurfacing.

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With the exception of Jack Cade's rising in 1450 and the Peasants' Revolt 70 years earlier (a large-scale popular uprising with genuinely revolutionary social and economic aims), medieval rebellions were often more about preserving the status quo rather than challenging it.

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Hezbollah Latin America "respects the Venezuelan revolutionary process, and supports its social policies as well as its anti-Zionism and anti-Americanism", even though it rejects socialism in favor of an Islamic order.

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