[Question] What are some examples of successful social change?

[Aaron Gertler 🔸]

Mark Lutter of the Charter Cities Institute has compiled a list of examples of social change.

The list is wide-ranging, and there’s no requirement that changes be positive — merely that a group of people tried to change a system and succeeded.

I’ll post the current entries here for easy skimming:

• The Fabian Society

• The repeal of the Corn Laws

• The YIMBYs

• The Mont Pelerin Society

• The Meiji Restoration

• Prohibition in the United States

• Progressivism in the United States

• Abolitionism

• African decolonization

• The creation of the Soviet Union

• The transition from Roman Republic to Roman Empire

• The Bretton Woods conference

• The Tiananmen Square uprising

• The French Revolution

• The modern environmental movement

• The Federalist Society

What are some examples Mark should add?

Personally, I’m most interested in examples that:

1. Involve movements on the approximate scale of EA, and/​or

2. Involved changes being made carefully and with attention to detail, to the overall benefit of those affected.