The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.
It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.
We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.
I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
