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n. (person) | 1. revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter | a radical supporter of political or social revolution. |
| ~ counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist | a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution. |
| ~ dynamiter, dynamitist | a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause. |
| ~ girondin, girondist | a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins. |
| ~ freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel | a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions). |
| ~ radical | a person who has radical ideas or opinions. |
| ~ charlotte corday, corday, marie anne charlotte corday d'armont | French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793). |
| ~ danton, georges jacques danton | French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794). |
| ~ che guevara, ernesto guevara, guevara | an Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution; active in other Latin American countries; was captured and executed by the Bolivian army (1928-1967). |
| ~ mao tsetung, mao zedong, mao | Chinese communist leader (1893-1976). |
| ~ jean paul marat, marat | French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793). |
| ~ jose julian marti, marti | Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895). |
| ~ karl marx, marx | founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883). |
| ~ comte de mirabeau, honore-gabriel victor riqueti, mirabeau | French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791). |
| ~ maxmillien marie isidore de robespierre, robespierre | French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794). |
| ~ leon trotsky, lev davidovich bronstein, trotsky | Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940). |
| ~ doroteo arango, francisco villa, pancho villa, villa | Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923). |
| ~ emiliano zapata, zapata | Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms (1879-1919). |
| ~ chou en-lai, zhou en-lai | Chinese revolutionary and communist leader (1898-1976). |
adj. | 2. insurgent, seditious, subversive | in opposition to a civil authority or government. |
| ~ disloyal | deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle.; "disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to the papers" |
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