Revolutionary movement
social movement dedicated to carrying out a revolution
A revolutionary movement (or revolutionary social movement) is a specific type of social movement dedicated to carrying out a revolution.
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Quotes
edit- In order for the universe of revolutionary values to arise, a subjective movement must create them in revolt and hope.
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity. Philosophical Library. 1948. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-8065-0160-4.
- Most revolutionary movements are unable to practise among themselves what they preach. Strong leadership cults, factionalism, ‘ego-tripping’, backbiting are the rule rather than the exception.
- Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. 1970. p. 39.
- Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people who will not be slaves again!
- À la Volonté du Peuple, To the Will of the People, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel, Herbert Kretzmer. From the Les Misérables musical, 1980.
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