Revolution differs from wartime by containing its own cause from within

Evidence

This total process, which Malraux (in L’Espoir) called apocalypse, is for the first time one in which the total collectivity is involved, whether it wants to be or not. Wartime would seem to be an analogous state of total mobilization, but it is, of course, initiated from the outside: the revolutionary moment, on the other hand, which insofar as it is violence is basically a civil war, contains its own cause and maintains itself in its own being. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 521

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely distinguishes the revolutionary totality from wartime mobilization — the interiority of revolution is the defining feature.
• XREF: connects to: Revolutions happen when governmental weakness unblocks pressures, not when they are blocked; Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126; Real revolution is an inner process preceding any outward violence (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Real revolution is an inner process preceding any outward violence #expands (0.80)
• Revolutions happen when governmental weakness unblocks pressures, not when they are blocked #expands (0.75)
• Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse #expands (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126