#revolution

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#comfort #conservative #house #revolutionary #serve

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#amazing #change #i #industrial #industrial revolution

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#revolution #respect

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#between #class #contradiction #furthermore #mass

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#make #really #revolution #socialist #trying

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#change #declaration #few #hanging #independence

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! ↗

— Karl Marx

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