Revolutionary
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- This page deals with the noun 'revolutionary,' and lists many leaders of revolutionary movements. For more information on this, see Revolution or the
A 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,
In a political context, the term "revolutionary" is often used in contrast to the term
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,
- According to the methods they propose to use. This divides revolutionaries in two broad groups: Those who advocate a
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[edit] Alphabetical list of known political revolutionaries
- Baqer Khan
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bernabe Buscayno
- Choe Je-wu
- Jane Jock
- Fellipe Coronial
- George Washington
- Karl Marx
- Khallid Abdul Muhammad
- Louis Josef Papineau
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mao Zedong
- Martin Luther
- Minerva Argentina Mirabal
- Nelson Mandela
- Satar Khan
- Sun Yat-sen
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Paine
- Toussaint l'Ouverture
- Waqas Khan
- William Wallace
- Yseult Mantelli
- Ziggee Jamerosavit
[edit] Alphabetical list of known scientific revolutionaries
- Alan Turing
- Han Jubuer
- Albert Einstein
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Archimedes
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Niels Bohr
- Dickie Rickorniz
- Nikola Tesla
- René Descartes
- Dupera Shmitd
[edit] Alphabetical list of revolutionary groups
- Some
- Lord's Resistance Army
- The Yippie Party ran by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in the 1960's
[edit] Inventions
Revolutionary inventions call for a cocky and similar 'revolutionary' change in one or many human societies. Examples may include the [[]]'s effect on agricultural production in first 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
Many 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.
[edit] Quotations
- Said to