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“Revolutionary theory also enshrined the living utopian hope that the State would wither away, and that the political sphere would negate itself as such, in the apotheosis of a finally transparent social realm. None of this has come to pass. The political sphere has disappeared, sure enough - but so far from doing so by means of a self-transcendence into the strictly social realm, it has carried that realm into oblivion with it. We are now in the transpolitical sphere; in other words, we have reached the zero point of politics, a stage which also implies the reproduction of politics, its endless simulation. For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end. So politics will never finish disappearing - nor will it allow anything else to emerge in its place. A kind of hysteresis of the political reigns.
Art has likewise failed to realize the utopian aesthetic of modern times, to transcend itself and become an ideal form of life. (In earlier times, of course, art had no need of self-transcendence, no need to become a totality, for such a totality already existed - in the shape of religion.) Instead of being subsumed in a transcendent ideality, art has been dissolved within a general aestheticization of everyday life, giving way to a pure circulation of images, a transaesthetics of banality. Indeed, art took this route even before capital, for if the decisive political event was the strategic crisis of 1929, whereby capital debouched into the era of mass trans politics, the crucial moment for art was undoubtedly that of Dada and Duchamp, that moment when art, by renouncing its own aesthetic rules of the game, debouched into the transaesthetic era of the banality of the image.
Nor has the promised sexual utopia materialized. This was to have consisted in the self-negation of sex as a separate activity and its self-realization as total life. The partisans of sexual liberation continue to dream this dream of desire as a totality fulfilled within each of us, masculine and feminine at once, this dream of sexuality as an assumption of desire beyond the difference between the sexes. In point of fact sexual liberation has succeeded only in helping sexuality achieve autonomy as an undifferentiated circulation of the signs of sex. Although we are certainly in transition towards a transsexual state of affairs, this has nothing to do with a revolution of life through sex - and everything to do with a confusion and promiscuity that open the door to virtual indifference (in all senses of the word) in the sexual realm.”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is endowed with tremendous power and can transform many things or clear the way for their transformation. The Sino-Japanese war will transform both China and Japan; provided China perseveres in the War of Resistance and in the united front, the old Japan will surely be transformed into a new Japan and the old China into a new China, and people and everything else in both China and Japan will be transformed during and after the war.”
“Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.”
Source: Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49
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“REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.”
“Revolutionize and improve lighting technology as a field of nanotechnology studies.”
“Revolutionize your life. Start now. Believe in the power of your dreams and ensure they are actualized.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.”
“Revolutions are always verbose.”
Source: History of the Russian Revolution
“Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.”
Source: Consciencism
“Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.”
“Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.”
Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.”
“Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.”
“Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.”
“Revolutions are never peaceful.”
Source: The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
“Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.”
Source: Malcolm X Speaks Out
“Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.”
“Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“Revolutions are not made for export.”
“Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.”
“Revolutions are not made with rosewater.”
“Revolutions are not made, they come.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.”
“Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.”
Source: The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys
“Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.”
“Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.”
“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
Source: The Class Struggles in France (1848-50)
“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”
Source: On Revolution
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
“Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.”
Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness
“Revolutions are the things of the past. The current generation believes we get one life, and we should enjoy and live it to the fullest. That’s why they don’t know what sacrifice means. Revolution requires sacrifices and the people of today are neither willing nor capable of sacrifice. Therefore, we can’t have revolutions today. All we can have now are movements.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“Revolutions begin with what is most intimate, with the things that lay against our skin. Clothing-creators world and time over have taken the greatest risks expressing themselves through what is hidden—reimagining movement, finding breath.
The alterations reverberate through each successive layer.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“Revolutions bring disruptions and disruptions bring opportunities.”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed.”
“Revolutions create constitutions and governance. Wars create treaties, accords, and alliances. We would never have the belief systems, the democracy, or the peace we enjoy today without humankind's history of violence.”
Source: Do You Realize?
“Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.”
“Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot of a week ago had turned out to be a real revolution and the shadow of death actually threatened all of us who were of the ruling cast.”
“Revolutions go not backward.”
Source: The Conduct of Life, Nature, and Other Essays
“Revolutions have always started in cafés.”
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted to another shoulder.”
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
“Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it”
“Revolutions in short are made in the name of the proletariat, not by it, and usually in countries where the proletariat hardly exists.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto
“Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.”