Word: revolutionize
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At Revolution Books on Mass. Ave., titles by Marx, Lenin, and Mao Zedong conspire alongside homemade-looking Communist leaflets and copies of the "Revolutionary Worker," a radical periodical.
Harvard's socialists of today are interested in change, but most pursue it through established politics, not revolution.
Feltman's personal views are typical. He considers himself a Marxist in his social criticism, but says he doesn't "advocate social revolution in the Marxian sense."
To Marx, however, reform is a completely unacceptable alternative to revolution. Reformers, he argues in The Communist Manifesto, "deaden the class struggle and reconcile the class antagonisms" by making the working class satisfied with the existing order.
Rachel Adler, a volunteer at Revolution Books and a supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party, distinguishes her views from the "mainstream" socialism that Feltman supports.