Revolutionary__(Révolutionnaire)

Revolution is a stereotyped concept. The revolutionary is a guy who is young, bearded, wears a jacket, sports a round hat or cap, carries a side bag and arm, idolizes Ernesto "Che" Guevara and clinches his fist like Fidel Castro. He also utters ‘beeping’ words on TV. He smokes pot, sleeps with rebel groups and promises peace, bread and land. The younger ones are Maoists and Fidelists and the older ones are more historically inclined. All have read Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Engels, and Mao Zedong among others.

They talk about democracy and letting the people decide. They all cry “Give the power back to the people”. They drag people to their meetings creating a lot of excitement. Power falls into the hands of a few rebels. Then the glamour fades away. A new generation of bureaucratic hackers are born. People are still dragged to meetings. People still refuse to participate, not wanting to get involved. So after some years the reform movement is crippled, by the same disease democracy suffers…..

By bullet or by ballot. They are determined to seize power. At times they succeed and the left intellectuals move in to end racism and exploitation, to give the power back to the people, to control the corporate enterprises. Then suddenly it dawns that modern technology has no place for armed revolutions. Slogans don’t run computers, Steel mills, power plants, mines, transports, science labs. It needs experts and army of workers to get things done. 787-8 & A380 don’t operate on people power. The sick turns to skilled physicians, not to the people. Modern society is complex. Revolution is exposed and the crowd is beginning to understand the lust some men have for power.

Take any country and you will see what the revolutionary really is : just another demagogue, a political leader who gains power by appealing to people's emotions, instincts, and prejudices in a way that is considered manipulative and dangerous, a self styled dictator, just another money mad capitalist in different clothes, using different words – to do the same old thing !