A brief definition of a revolutionary?

[Black_Rose]

I post this a while ago, and I thought it is a terse (and admittedly incomplete) definition of a revolutionary. Moreover, this definition allows one to distinguish between a revolutionary and a reactionary.

"I would say that a true revolutionary offers real hope the masses, and a revolutionary does not seek to establish a social order that merely recapitulates the injustices of the contemporary social and economic order."

What do you think of the definition?

[o well this is ok I guess]

Someone who engages in revolutionary activity.
From this simple definition I can easily define who is "revolutionary" and "reactionary".

[Susurrus]

Noun
revolutionary (plural revolutionaries)
1. A revolutionist; a person who revolts.
2. A person who wears Che t-shirts.

[m-l Power]

That person who fight for the political conquest of the proletarian class against the burgueois.

[Red Rabbit]

Someone with a high rep count on RevLeft. ;)

[kour]

Someone with a high rep count on RevLeft. ;)
Does anyone else find it odd that a Communist forum ranks its members by their reputation points? :confused:

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Does anyone else find it odd that a Communist forum ranks its members by their reputation points? :confused:
it's a feature built into vBulletin, the software this forum uses.

You can disable reputation in your control panel if you'd like.

[hatzel]

Does anyone else find it odd that a Communist forum ranks its members by their reputation points? :confused:

Not at all. Each person is entitled to the full product of their labour, the value of which is decided upon in a radically democratic fashion. The product being the rep points, the labour being making funnaaaaay posts. Oh, and sometimes good ones. Sometimes.

To give this thread a totally different spin, I feel that, as revolutionaries are simply those who concern themselves with revolution, the former will be best defined by defining the latter. To take a quote from Stirner, a revolution is "an overturning of conditions, of the established condition or status, the State or society" which "commands one to make [new] arrangements." Meaning a revolutionary is one who seeks to overturn conditions and make new arrangements. Sounds fair to me.