Do you consider yourself a 'revolutionary'?

[Blanquist]

Or just someone interested in socialism, etc?

I consider myself a revolutionary, like my signature says, socialism above all else.

[Railyon]

You can't be revolutionary per se. Only pro-revolutionary.

[Blanquist]

You can't be revolutionary per se. Only pro-revolutionary.

I see.. Do you mean from a semantic point of view?

My dictionary says'

rev·o·lu·tion·ar·y
Engaged in or promoting political revolution

[ВАЛТЕР]

You aren't necessarily a revolutionary until you are participating in an active revolution. However, I get what you are saying and yes I am supportive of any and all leftist revolutionary actions.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

For me, the term 'revolutionary' always conjures up images of Guevara and armed resistance...I would agree with being pro-revolutionary and taking part in actions that support revolution..but seeing as no actual revolution is taking place, don't think revolutionary fits as a label or at least I would feel odd giving myself that label.
That's probably really pedantic but oh well.

[hatzel]

Revolution is so very old-hat. It's almost funny how old-hat it is. Very very almost. I'd sooner be an insurgent. Or an artist.

[Railyon]

I see.. Do you mean from a semantic point of view?

I meant it more like, we are not the ones that make the revolution, so we're not actually revolutionaries until we engage in one. Until then, we're pro-rev at best.

[El Oso Rojo]

http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/#!/2012/02/down-with-activism-up-with-revolution.html

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Sure, why not... "a flower by any other name."

[Luc]

I say Revolutionist partly because Revolutionary sounds rediculous for someone like me and Kropotkin's pretty cool

so no i don't consider myself a Revolutionary

edit: don't know why I capitalised those :confused: w/e fuck it

[WanderingCactus]

No. I'm not into role-play.

[NewLeft]

I've been in protests/rallies/demos..etc.

None of which is revolutionary.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

I've been in protests/rallies/demos..etc.

None of which is revolutionary.

Pretty much me as well. I participated in my local occupy (before the police came in, broke everything, arrested a shit load of people for no reason, and destroyed it) but it was dominated by social-democrats or assholes trying to get Obama reelected (although the latter were a minority compared to the social democrats, but fuck them as well.).

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

If it came to, I'd engender combat against the foes of the people.

[Koba Junior]

If I am revolutionary, it is for the fact that I look out for my future interests when the proletariat seize power. A professional artist does not necessarily sell his labor; he may direct capital into the investment of producing his art and enjoy profit acquired. Is such an artist a unit of the petty bourgeoisie, or is he a unit of a class vestigial in the context of industrial capitalism?

[Magón]

I'm just a badass with a nice left hook and right uppercut.

[MotherCossack]

THE CHANCE WOULD BE A FINE THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i wish......................


want the solution
have a revolution

you wont get far
unless you are bourgois

cap-ital-ism
is the worst kind of ism

its old
someone bold
dont do what you're told
step out of the fold

whisper not fair
where's our share
they dont care
as long as we dont dare

we can be much more
than we were before
just open the door
and start the war.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Oy some of the semantic responses to this thread :rolleyes:

Pro-revolutionary, revolutionary whatever. In the US people say "revolutionary" and I don't think people assume that that means that there is a revolution going on right now that they just don't know about. In fact many people in the US who don't actually support the idea of a real revolution call themselves revolutionary - "We need to have a revolution of the mind, put all this colonialist consciousness behind us and check your privilege". These would be college po-mo "revolutionaries" :lol:.

[hatzel]

Moi, je suis la révolution actuelle...

[MotherCossack]

I meant it more like, we are not the ones that make the revolution, so we're not actually revolutionaries until we engage in one. Until then, we're pro-rev at best.

thats what i mean by: "chance would be a fine thing'...
I mean i'd like to be a revolutionary.... but there is no flaming revolution on the horizen.... worst bleeding luck!
its like saying :"Oh yeah... I am a great cook."... if you have no kitchen.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Nah, im just a reformist wrapped in red.

[Ned Kelly]

I'm a 'petit-bourgeois nationalist'

[Crux]

Super-ultra-mega-revolutionary. I am so revolutionary people start to randomly seize the means of production around me.

[wsg1991]

i would shift from reformist to revolutionary according to the situation

[TheGodlessUtopian]

So revolutionary that I can't tell any of you without blowing my cover. :ninja:

[Offbeat]

Kropotkin used the term "revolutionist".

[The Jay]

I have a killer beard so I'm obviously revolutionary.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

We all know your revolutionary potential is directly proportional to the amount of Red Alert you played as as kid, so I'm pretty much Lenin Jesus.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I agree with the others, I've participated in strikes, demos, rallies, protests, Occupy, etc. but I do not consider myself a "revolutionary," in that there has yet to be one.

I also don't feel the need to get hung up on titles, I know what I want and I know how to get it and that's what I'm pushing for.

[black magick hustla]

i am a sellsword

[Prometeo liberado]

A Revolutionary, yes because I advocate system change that can only be brought on by revolutionary means.
Revolutionary, no, I am neither a constant spinner nor do I do anything absolutely groundbreaking.
Dont forget about those pesky nouns, verbs and adjectives folks!

[Crux]

I'm throwing a party and it's vanguard only.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I have a thick beard, confrontational demeanor, and like to front like I'm some sort of radical (lol), so I'm pretty much as revolutionary as they come.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I'm throwing a party and it's vanguard only.

http://instantrimshot.com/

[Prometeo liberado]

I have a thick beard, confrontational demeanor, and like to front like I'm some sort of radical (lol), so I'm pretty much as revolutionary as they come.

How can you argue with that?