In the confused, counter-revolutionary aftermath, such words would scarcely seem appropriate.
Poverty undermined Marx's Victorian sense of manhood, entangled him in the vicious world of London's emigre politics, and even shaped the fury of his philosophy – with personal desperation pushing him towards a much more radical revolutionary tone in the aftermath of 1848.
Still, the minority of the democracies that have managed to emerge in the aftermath of their revolutionary ferment provide cause for optimism.
In dozens of interviews this week, activists, pundits on both sides and legal scholars from across the political spectrum said that with the Supreme Court's June 26 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, the country was at a revolutionary moment akin to the aftermath of the decisions in Brown v. the Board of Education, which banned school segregation, and Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion.
Comte lived through the aftermath of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods, at a time when a new, stable social order without despotism was sought.
If operatic values can survive radical revolutionary change -- paradoxically, 1917 and its aftermath probably entrenched them -- they can survive the more recent social transformations.
Although women stood at the forefront of the initial revolt that ousted President Hosni Mubarak 10 months ago, few had prominent roles in the various revolutionary coalitions formed in the uprising's aftermath.
The mid-nineteen-seventies was a revolutionary moment in investigative reporting — the perhaps inevitable aftermath of Woodward and Bernstein, with stories on C.I.A. operations, military cover-ups, and Congressional malfeasance all over the front pages.
However, party branch development dwindled in the aftermath of 1927's April 12th Counter-Revolutionary Coup.
Revolutions are tricky, though: historically, a lot of them have gone sideways when the revolutionaries couldn't hang on through the chaotic aftermath of what they'd wrought.
In the aftermath of the execution of King Louis XVI, revolutionary France was attacked by Prussian and Holy Roman forces from the Austrian Netherlands.
