The Revolutionist Themes

"The Revolutionist" may be short, but it's all about brotherhood—Communist brotherhood, to be precise. The comrade literally has nothing without his commie community supporting him along his jour...

Violence? What violence? Don't worry, you didn't miss a secret bonus ninth paragraph or anything like that. Instead, we’re referring to the violence that hangs in the periphery of "The Revolution...

One of the few things we know about the comrade in "The Revolutionist" is that he is loyal to the communist vision of world revolution, despite the suffering he's experienced in Budapest. He holds...

Belief in communist ideology plays a very important role in "The Revolutionist." Our main man—a.k.a. the comrade—is a member of the Communist Party, and the narrator is part of a network of com...

In "The Revolutionist," after leaving Budapest, the comrade sets off on a kind of European tour. Okay, not quite—we sense he's making his way to a safer place than the one he comes from. But impo...