Revolutionary
This page deals with the noun 'revolutionary,' and lists many leaders of revolutionary movements. For more information on this, see Revolution or the :Category:Revolutions. For another list of revolutionary people, see :Category:RevolutionariesA
revolutionary is a person who either advocates or actively engages in some kind of
revolution. Since the term "revolution" may be used to refer to a sudden change in any field, one may speak of
political revolutionaries,
social revolutionaries, revolutionary
scientists,
inventors,
artists, etc.
In a political context, the term "revolutionary" is often used in contrast to the term
reformist. While a revolutionary is someone who supports quick and abrupt change, a reformist is someone who supports slow and gradual change.
Political revolutionaries may be classified in two ways:
# According to the
goals of the revolution they propose. Usually, these goals are part of a certain
ideology. In theory, each ideology could generate its own brand of revolutionaries. In practice, most political revolutionaries have been either
liberals,
nationalists,
socialists,
communists or
anarchists.# According to the
methods they propose to use. This divides revolutionaries in two broad groups: Those who advocate a
violent revolution, and those who are
pacifists. Perhaps the best known examples of these two types of revolutionaries are
Che Guevara and
Mahatma Gandhi, respectively.
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Abbie Hoffman*
Abdul Qadir Jilani*
Abimael Guzmán*
Alexander Berkman*
André Rigaud*
Andrés Bello*
Andrés Bonifacio*
Antonio Luna*
Antonio de Sucre*
Assata Shakur*
Augusto Sandino*
Aung San*
Avram Iancu*
Ayatollah Khomeini*
Baqer Khan*
Béla Kun*
Robert Bell*
Ben Bella*
Benjamin Franklin*
Bernabe Buscayno*
Bhagat Singh*
Cathal Goulding*
Carlos Fonseca Amador*
Carlos Lacerda*
Chandrashekar Azad*
Che Guevara*Choe Je-wu
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Daniel Shays*
Deng Xiaoping*
Eamon de Valera*
Emilio Aguinaldo*
Emilio Jacinto*
Emiliano Zapata *
Emma Goldman*
Errico Malatesta*
Farabundo Martí*
Fellipe Coronial*
Fidel Castro*
Francisco de Miranda*
Francisco I. Madero*
Frantz Fanon*
Fred Hampton*
Friedrich Engels*
Gamal Abdel Nasser*
George Danton*
George Washington*
Georges Sorel*
Giuseppe Garibaldi*
Guy Fawkes*
Huey P. Newton*
Ho Chi Minh*
Hua Guofeng*
Huang Xing*
James P. Cannon*
Jawaharlal Nehru*
Jean Jacques Dessalines*
Jean-Paul Marat*
John Adams*
Jonas Savimbi*
Jose Maria Sison*
José Martí*
Josef Stalin*
Josip Broz Tito*
Karl Liebknecht*
Karl Marx*
Khallid Abdul Muhammad*
Kossuth*
Kwame Nkrumah*
Kwame Ture*
Leila Khaled*
Leon Trotsky*
Li Dazhao*
Lin Biao*
Louis Josef Papineau*
François Mackandal*
Mahatma Gandhi*
Malcolm X*
Mao Zedong*
Marcus Garvey*
Martin Luther King Jr.*
Matija (Ambroz) Gubec*
Maurice Bishop*
Maximilien Robespierre*
Michael Collins*
Mikhail Bakunin*
Mirabal sisters*
Muhammad*
Mahathir bin Muhammad*
Mustafa Kemal*
Nat Turner*
Nelson Mandela*
Nestor Mahkno*
Nicolae Bălcescu*
Pancho Villa*
Patrick Henry*
Pavel Axelrod*
Peter Kropotkin*
Peter Wentworth*
Phoolan Devi*
Qiu Jin*
Rosa Luxemburg*
Rudolf Rocker*
Samuel Adams*
Satar Khan*
Sean MacStiofain*
Simón Bolívar*
Sitting Bull*
Sten Sture*
Subcomandante Marcos*
Subhash Chandra Bose*
Sun Yat-sen*
Tecumseh*
The Unknown Rebel*
Thomas Jefferson*
Thomas Paine*
Thomas Sankara*
Toussaint l'Ouverture*
Tudor Vladimirescu*
Tupac Amaru*
Tupac Katari*
Vasil Levski*
Veer Savarkar*
Vladimir Ilich Lenin*
Vo Nguyen Giap*
Walter Sisulu*
Waqas Khan*
Walter (Wat) Tyler*
William Lyon Mackenzie*
Yasser Arafat*
Zhou Enlai*
Alan Turing*
Albert Einstein*
Antoine Lavoisier*
Archimedes*
Blaise Pascal*
Charles Darwin*
Ernest Rutherford*
Frederick Winslow Taylor*
Galileo Galilei*
George Boole*
Gregor Mendel*
Isaac Newton*
James Clerk Maxwell*
Johannes Kepler*
John Dalton*
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck*
Michael Faraday*
Nicolaus Copernicus*
Niels Bohr*
Nikola Tesla*
René Descartes*
Robert Hooke*
Rudolf Clausius*
Animal Liberation Front*
Armenian Revolutionary Federation*
Black Panther Party*Some
Communist Parties are revolutionary.
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Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (Spain)
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Earth Liberation Front*
Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement
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Industrial Workers of the World*
Irish Republican Army*
Katipunan,KKK(Philippines)
*
Liberation News (Internationalist)*
New People's Army (Philippines)
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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia a.k.a. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)
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Sandinista National Liberation Front (Nicaragua)
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Symbionese Liberation Army*
Socialist Party USA*
Viet Minh(Vietnam)
*
The Weathermen/Weather Underground*
The Yippie Party ran by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in the 1960's
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Zapatista Army of National LiberationRevolutionary inventions call for a similar 'revolutionary' change in one or many human societies. Examples may include the
haber process's effect on agricultural production in first world countries, or the
textile mill.
Paleontologists call for division of prehistoric human societies along what could be considered 'revolutionary' inventions, eg. two ages of
early and
late stone working, settled
agriculture, etc. For a better listing of popularly accepted revolutions, see the article
Revolutions or the
:Category:RevolutionsMany sources will claim that progressively smaller and smaller events qualify as 'revolutionary,' for example, historians focusing on Greece may claim that the domestication of trees in ancient Greece qualifies as a subset to the neolithic revolution, or as its own revolution in agriculture.
* Said to
Louis XVI: "it's not a revolt, it's a revolution".
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Libertarian Communist Library - contains works of many prominent revolutionaries*
berevolutionary.com - Site promoting "Revolutionary Capitalism" among other ideas using stencil propaganda.
