10.BABEL (19)

Looking back on the history of "revolution" as a collective action, it is clear that a certain ideological boundary divides it: prior to this boundary, most revolutions were uprisings by peasants suffocated by taxes or disasters, the so-called slave rebellions or peasant revolts. After this boundary, revolutions largely carried explicit political purposes and demands. What marks this boundary is the curtain of Romanticism and Humanism raised by Lu Suo.

Romanticism has had an enormous impact on the development of world revolutionary history. It can be said that in the era of industrialization, apart from opportunists, most revolutionaries were Romanticists. The differences among them lay only in their advocacy demands and the degree of Realism inherent in their beliefs.