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mrs_yorke — 18 years ago(May 17, 2007 02:02 PM)
I don't know if this has been posted before, but I would like to hear some opinions or interpretations about that particular phrase: "Every heart is a revolutionary cell". I really loved it, but I think that there are many ways to interpret it
Every person - therefore every heart - is capable of a revolution? Is every heart fighting against something? Every revolution starts from the heart? From the feelings?
I have no clue how to look at it really, I tend to understand everything from a romantic point of view!
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sam-hopsking — 18 years ago(May 24, 2007 02:48 PM)
Maybe like this:
'Every heart' surely means every person able to love -in a social meaning rather than a sexual or materialist one. Call it altruism, solidarity or charity.
'A revolutionary cell' could be a metaphor for the willingness to leave everything behind and for a higher goal with a missionary attitude.
But 'Revolutionre Zelle' is also a technical term for the smallest unit of organisation in a militant underground movement. According to german law a terrorist group must have at least 3 members to enact special anti-terrorist rules. So I guess this has a double meaning. -
phe_de — 18 years ago(May 25, 2007 02:14 PM)
But 'Revolutionre Zelle' is also a technical term for the smallest unit of organisation in a militant underground movement.
Not only that; in the 70s and 80s there was a terrorist group in West Germany called "Revolutionre Zellen", and they used that slogan.
http://www.freilassung.de/div/plakat/herz.htm
The Edukators' aim is to cause fear. Just like terrorists. But unlike terrorists, they don't murder, steal, or ask for ransom. So maybe they understood that sentence in your first sense (altruism, solidarity, charity).
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fragwinter — 18 years ago(May 24, 2007 02:49 PM)
I think that it is just like you think.
Every heart is always fighting against something, something that they don't agree, that they think that should change. That's my point of view.
We are always judging the others, the unknown. Constantly we do that. This human act makes the development of angry in each soul and consequently heart.
We have to fight for our own peace of mind. We have to fight for our world.
I apologize for my english, but I'm Portuguese.
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TankBuster — 18 years ago(June 07, 2007 04:50 AM)
Often you hear the expression "Hearts & Minds" in reference to military (Iraq at the moment, for example) or revoultionary campaigns (Cuba). Every heart being a revoultionary cell meant to me, that every person has the potential within them to make a difference; not nessecarily through armed conflict but through individuality and belief in a cause or opinion. You don't have to be an extremist to have a cause, and I think that "Every heart is a revolutionary cell" implies that any small defiance can be liberating. The Edukator's defiance was small scale, and yet they had the power to influence one man's life; to change his outlook if even for a short while, put him in a situation never before experienced and never to be forgotten. They didn't need to use violence to make a point, true revolutionaries shouldn't need to.
In my opinion the phrase is referring to free expression and self belief. The confirmation that any single person can make a difference, they only need want to. -
Doge_Urbino — 15 years ago(November 12, 2010 10:03 PM)
While I mean no offense all responses, I'd like to say that your understanding of the term can be relative and all that postmodern-relativist viewpoints tends to depoliticize it and mass market it as everything and anything. Every heart is a Revolutionary Cell, to me, and this is someone with a similar viewpoint to the RZ and RAF, merely means that the symbolic center of the revolutionary struggle starts with the heart. Solidarity and internationalism, anticapitalism, and Anarchism remain unmentioned as nuances on discussions about the quote. And it is not my opinion that Revolutionaire Zellen merely wanted empathy from the people that are struck by the quote, but action. The cells are nothing without a direction, just like the heart is for nothing if not for a cause. Single people do not make changes, the People make changes. The history of men is not of individuals but of peoples. To merely superficially view it is a pleasure too, but please, for the sake of those that actually fight and die for those words(I'm not being a blowhard and saying I do but come on), respect it enough to learn the political significance of 'Every Heart is a Revolutionary Cell.'
To firmly rebuke the previous poster, yes, you do require armed struggle to call yourself a revolutionary. The word itself means one who bring about a change/full circle through Materialist logic. He disassembles the machinery of the state through parallel states and parallel governments like the Russians did, and eventually takes it over and creates a revolutionary government. The Cuban revolutionaries initiated peasant armed warfare, as did the Chinese during their civil war, and eventually these revolutionaries claimed state power. Some, rather ingenuine revolutionaries take power in military coups or political coups, adding thus another criterion, that their cause is backed by popular support, as unfortunately for capitalists, most national liberation and anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist struggles have had and do have, even at the moment. A true revolutionary follows the term to its full extent, the change of affairs to one opposed to the powers that be as they are now.
Would we claim that Che Guevara, Simon Bolivar, Durruti, Mao are not revolutionaries? They were in the technical sense of the word, even if you are an unrepentant capitalist you surely can recognize this. Also wouldn't their respective societies and their respective times have called them terrorists? Terrorist is a heavy BS loaded bourgeois term used to discredit popular national struggles in the MiddleEast and in Latin America and Africa and has been used many many times in the past and will be used as long as the 'peace' loving 'democratic' governments of our world hold sway.
Now, urban militants, cells, etc are revolutionary if their aim is to in some way target the state/government and set about rapid/actual change. You can sympathize with the Tibetans and drink your fair-trade Costa Rican coffee in Seattle, and feel like a real hardcore revolutionary with some che shirts and a beret, but true revolutionaries ye are not. Not unless your ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for your ideals, and that means giving up the idea of a personal life goals or goals centered around fulfillment of your own desires. No person that lives a 9-5 bougie life in the first world can call themselves that though, And I dont mean any offense, Lenin/Stalin/Trotsky/Luxembourg/Kropotkin/Ernesto Che Guevara/Mao were all bourgeois like us until they made the move towards definitive action.