A partially victorious revolutionary movement must keep its radical missionaries active.

Evidence

The Fatimid Caliphs, like the first Abbasids, found that the views and wishes of the missionaries did not always accord with the needs of the state, and from time to time, both in the Tunisian and in the Egyptian phases, there are indications of disagreement and repression within the Isma ili fold—even of secession. But the Fatimids, unlike the Abbasids, could not afford to break completely with the mission, since there was still important work for the mission to do. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 382

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Revolutionary ends must already be present in the means and in the revolutionaries. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 212