This page deals with the noun 'revolutionary,' and lists many leaders of revolutionary movements. For more information on this, see
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, Social revolutionaries, revolutionary Scientist s, Inventor s, Artist s, 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 Pacifist s. Perhaps the best known examples of these two types of revolutionaries are Che Guevara and Mahatma Gandhi , respectively.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF KNOWN POLITICAL REVOLUTIONARIES
Revolutionary 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 .
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.
QUOTATIONS
Said to Louis XVI : "it's not a revolt, it's a revolution".
