The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Difference between revisions

[[File:guillotine_9552.png|frame|<small>Vive La Révolution!</small> ]]

 

 

{{quote|''In war, ideals can be corrupted''|'''Optimus Prime''', ''[[Transformers Prime]]''}}

== Fan Fiction ==

* Between 1980 and 1983, the ''[[Star Wars]]'' fandom was inundated with stories speculating on how -- or if -- Han Solo might be thawed out of the carbonite in which he'd ended ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''. One particularly memorable story, "The Revenant", had him being unfrozen ''thirty years later''. Leia is dead, Chewbacca is dead, Lando is dead ... and Luke, who arranged Leia's death to bring a group of unaligned planets to the Rebellion's side, is First Citizen of a New Republic oppressive as ever the Empire was.

 

 

== Real Life ==

* Be warned: [[Your Mileage May Vary|Your mileage WILL vary]]. Try to keep it civil.

** Before any of the totalitarian figures listed above ever came to power, there was [[Jean Jacques Rousseau]]. [[The Theme Park Version]] of his philosophy is often taught as an advocacy for total democracy, in which people are completely informed about all issues and decide, as a unanimous whole, what is beneficial to them. Less appealing to modern sensibilities is what he advocated as the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|means to these ends]]: Among other things, the abolition of religion in favor of one civil religion that basically worshiped the state, the abolition of parenting in favor of communal rearing, and the abolition of just about every other thing that makes people unique from one another. Far from the naturalist/anarchist he's often been [[Flanderization|flanderized]] into, you could argue that Rousseau invented the [[People's Republic of Tyranny]].

* In the vein of ''Weather Underground'', Europe had its share of student revolutionaries; Red Army Faction, or RAF, and Brigade Rosse in West Germany and Italy respectively. The former is somewhat notable to only officially cease activity at the late half of the 90's. Both organizations were behind a small number of violent acts towards the governments.