> but they also have communication they never had before

Funny you say that. People in 1848 also had "communication they never had before," and they could "organize efficiently as they never could in past".

From _1848: Year of Revolution_ by Mike Rapport:

> The speed with which the wave of revolutions swept across

> Europe was due to the wonders of modern technology. In

> 1789 it took weeks for news – carried, at its fastest, on

> horseback or under sail – for the fall of the Bastille to

> be relayed across Central and Eastern Europe. In 1848,

> thanks to steamships and a nascent telegraph system,

> reports were being heard within days or even minutes.