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Revolution: A. A political revolution is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization. It typically involves a revolt against the government due to perceived oppression or political incompetence. - B. A scientific revolution is often characterized by the development of new theories and methods, as well as the overthrow of existing ones. See also Th. Kuhn, Theories, Paradigm change, Incommensurability, Theory change, Meaning Change, Method.
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Adam Michnik on Revolution - Dictionary of Arguments

Krastev I 24
Revolution/Utopia/Michnik/Krastev: In the late 1970s the great German poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger travelled around Europe in search of the old continent’s soul. When he visited Hungary and spoke with some of the best-known critics of the communist regime, what they told him was: ‘we are not dissidents. We represent normality.’(1)
Utopia/Michnik: As Michnik later confessed, ‘My obsession had been that we should have … an anti-utopian revolution, because utopias lead to the guillotine and the gulag.’ His post-communist slogan was therefore ‘Liberty, Fraternity, Normality’.(2)
Poland/Krastev: When Poles of his generation spoke of ‘normality’, it should also be said, they did not mean some earlier pre-communist period of Polish history to which their country could happily revert once the parenthesis of Soviet occupation was closed. What they meant by ‘normality’ was the West.


1. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent (Pantheon, 1990), p. 97.
2. Roger Cohen, ‘The Accommodations of Adam Michnik’, The New York Times Magazine (7 November 1999).


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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Michnik, Adam
Krastev I
Ivan Krastev
Stephen Holmes
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning London 2019


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