Revolution is the completion of the past’s dreamt thoughts, not a rupture.

Evidence

So our campaign slogan must be: reform of consciousness, not through dogma, but through the analysis of that mystical consciousness which has not yet become clear to itself. It will then turn out that the world has long dreamt of that of which it had only to have a clear idea to possess it really. It will turn out that it is not a question of any conceptual rupture between past and future, but rather of the completion of the thoughts of the past. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 233

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is Marx’s own late formulation of revolution as the self-clarification of an already-dreamt consciousness — the hermeneutic bridge Jameson uses between Marx and Bloch.
• SEED: A ‘revolution as completing the past’s unfinished thoughts’ lens could frame an essay contrasting Marxism’s genealogical temporality against modernity’s rhetoric of rupture.
• XREF: connects to: The past is fixed being while the future remains modifiable by freedom — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 454; The Past is a non-thetic, lived bond with the world and self — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 481; Surrealism is a revolutionary movement resolving the contradiction between daily life and dreams. (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Past is a non-thetic, lived bond with the world and self #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 481
• The past is fixed being while the future remains modifiable by freedom #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 454
• Surrealism is a revolutionary movement resolving the contradiction between daily life and dreams. #qualifies (0.75)