Revolutionaries in Coffee Shops

All too often one hears from conservatives the boring cliche about privileged revolutionaries who sit around in coffee shops doing nothing. How could they ever organize a revolution? Those incompetent idiots who sit around talking ideas all day! Their pie-in-the-sky Utopian whining will go nowhere!

I say: never underestimate what creative and liberated chaff can do. When Victor Adler objected to Berchtold, foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, that war would provoke revolution in Russia, even if not in the Habsburg monarchy, he replied: "And who will lead this revolution? Perhaps Mr. Bronstein [Trotsky] sitting over there at the Cafe Central?" Can you imagine the look on his face when 1917 broke out?

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