 Knapp stated that while Lessing exposes self @-@ styled insurrectionists as " spoiled and immature products of the middle class " , she also <unk> their <unk> at affecting any meaningful change . Lessing is critical of the state which " feeds the very hand that <unk> it " , yet she also <unk> those institutions that exploits the working class and ignores the homeless . Knapp remarks that Lessing does not resolve these <unk> , but instead highlights the failings of the state and those seeking to overthrow it . Scanlan compared Lessing 's comrades to Richard E. <unk> 's terrorists in his book <unk> of Revolution : Terrorism in the Modern World . <unk> wrote that when " ambitious <unk> " have no " creative ruling class to follow or a rebellious lower class to lead [ they ] have often taken upon themselves the burden of representative action " , which he said " is a formula for disaster " . 
