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The Philosopher's Shirt

There Is Love In Revolution - Embroidered

Struggle burns people out. What keeps anyone in it for decades is not anger but attachment to something worth protecting.

Embroidered small — politics you can wear to a family lunch. Everything in one place, across every format we print it on, made to order. An activist gift for activists. Anger starts it. Love finishes it.

Questions about this design

What does the There is Love in Revolution design show?
The word REVOLUTION in bold capitals, with the middle letters EVOL mirrored and set in red, so that inside the revolution you can read LOVE. It is a small visual argument – every serious movement for change is driven not only by anger but by love for people and for a better world.
What does there is love in revolution mean?
On the surface it is wordplay – love spelled backwards, evol, sits right inside the word revolution. Behind it is an old idea in political thought – that the deepest motive for changing society is care for others, and that a revolution without love risks becoming mere destruction or a new form of domination.
Who said the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love?
Ernesto Che Guevara, in his essay Socialism and Man in Cuba (1965) – at the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. The line is often quoted on its own; in the essay it introduces his demanding and controversial ideal of a new, selfless human being.
Who said power without love is reckless and abusive?
Martin Luther King Jr., in his speech Where Do We Go From Here? (August 1967). He argued that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anaemic. Real justice, for King, is love correcting everything that stands against love – love and power belong together.
What did Hannah Arendt say about love and politics?
Arendt was sceptical. In The Human Condition (1958) she called love, because of its passion, unworldly and perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces – it closes the space between people that politics needs. In On Revolution (1963) she warned that pity and compassion in politics can turn violent. Her alternative was amor mundi, love of the shared world.
What is Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving about?
In The Art of Loving (1956) the psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm argues that love is not something we simply fall into but an art that must be learned and practised. Mature love is an activity built on care, responsibility, respect and knowledge, and Fromm thought a society organised around consumption and exchange makes such love hard.
What did revolution originally mean?
It comes from the Latin revolvere, to roll back, and first meant the turning of celestial bodies, as in Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543). Only in the 17th century did it take on a political sense – at first the return to a previous order, later the radical overturning of one. Hannah Arendt traces this shift in On Revolution.
Who is the There is Love in Revolution design a good gift for?
For activists, organisers, idealists and philosophy students who believe that changing the world starts with caring about it. The design comes embroidered as a classic t-shirt, premium hoodie, sweatshirt and cap, and printed as a sweatshirt, premium hoodie, classic t-shirt, women's t-shirt, mug and sticker.