Concept
Revolutionary
Overview
person who participates in a revolution
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In the presence of strong sympathies of the masses, in the presence of active assistance on the part of the democratic elements of the people; facing a government commonly hated, unsuccessful both in big and in small undertakings, a government defeated on the seas, defeated in the fields of battle, despised, discouraged, with no faith in the coming day, a government vainly struggling, currying favor, provoking and…
Leon Trotsky, Our Revolution
States what Revolutionary is; names Revolutionary several times.
The unions become the organizers of labor discipline. They demand from the workers intensive labor under the most difficult conditions, to the extent that the Labor State is not yet able to alter those conditions. The unions become the apparatus of revolutionary repression against undisciplined, anarchical, parasitic elements in the working class. From the old policy of trade unionism, which at a certain stage is…
Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy
Names Revolutionary several times.
MARCH 18th, 1852. As early as the beginning of April, 1848, the revolutionary torrent had found itself stemmed all over the Continent of Europe by the league which those classes of society that had profited by the first victory immediately formed with the vanquished. In France, the petty trading class and the Republican faction of the bourgeoisie had combined with the Monarchist bourgeoisie against the proletarians…
Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Names Revolutionary several times; opens on Revolutionary.
Philosophers who discussed Revolutionary
- Feminism
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Stephen Toulmin
- Slavoj Žižek
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Intellectual
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Alexander Bogdanov
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Paulo Freire
- Albert Camus
Related ideas
- Anarchism
- Islamism
- Reactionary
- Columbia University Press
- Nationalism
- Politics
- Pacifism
- Revolution
- Science
- Socialism
- Reformism
- Conservatism
- Art
- Ideology
- Communism
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.