“Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.” MenWantMomentsClassWrittenMiddleSonRevolutionElementsRedConservativeSocialismSupposed To BeRevolutionaryFlagsWorking ClassProletariatBourgeoisieUpper ClassWorking Man Author:George Bernard Shaw
“The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé.” MadeStrongPrinciplesCrimeRevolutionColdExerciseRedRemainsTerrorWornPalacesCapsLiquor Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
“The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...” WarHardBitsFeetWindRevolutionRedSoldierSnowValleysTiedFootprintAmerican RevolutionRagsValley Forge Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.” HouseRevolutionClothesRedOilAccidentsChestsRepublicFlagsStaffWrapsFieryOld LadySlippersMugNecktiesBunting Author:Alfred Doblin
“[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo.” WorldStatesWould BeLyingWorstRevolutionBecomingExpectationsGainsRedFunctionIncludingTyrannyManagersIsolationElsewherePredictionsBureaucracyWorld Bank Author:Noam Chomsky
“There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.” LongYoungWhiteFeetRevolutionRedBlueLipsNecksCheeksYoung WomenBasketsDrippingBourbon Book:Revolution Source: Revolution
“I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.” FirstsBelieveKindMayLittlesHas BeensCountryStatesAmericaCertainSufferingOrderI BelieveChurchUnitedResultsClassUnited StatesTroubleEconomicCommunicationRevolutionPeriodsRedDirectBoundsRussiaInevitableEncountersSomedayTransitionUnited States Of AmericaRestrictionBloodshedCreditorsEconomic Order Author:Stuart Chase