no revolution ever produced the system that the people who threw the revolution planned to introduce
This is trivially true if you mean that no revolution produced the desired result up to the end of time. But then, the same is true of anything any human being does.
If you interpret it in a narrow, nontrivial way such as "no revolution produced a result that was close to the desired result and took at least as long enough to become unrecognizeable as the existing order would have taken to become unrecognizeable", then there are several candidates, including the American Revolution and several post-Soviet states (if you count leaving the USSR as a revolution).
I'm not saying "result" but system. The US constitution got written after the US got independent and not before.
several post-Soviet states (if you count leaving the USSR as a revolution)
Some countries of the USSR did copy the Western style of democracy and free markets. They could do that by letting other countries send people to tell them how to run their country. They didn't do that because they themselves knew how to create a democratic state with free markets.
...This is trivially true if you mean that no revolution produced the desired r
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