The prospect of revolution is the most horrifying thing which can be imagined. It can not be conceived, the nature of this horror.
It is not just death, and it is beyond evil, beyond morality, beyond even judgment. Because judgement is a kind of story, the root of one at least. And war tears away the foundation of human conception, it is the collapse of myth and value. There is absolutely nothing, it is total annihilation of the psyche.
To come near to understanding, you must know, you have no enemies. The ones who you would oppose, you must understand not in any ideological sense. War is without myth. To see clearly, you must recognize them as only two things. An obstacle to your end, and as a person, like any other, like yourself, who could become like you, who given time could join with you in your effort, but, by circumstance, and for the cause of expedience a life you will cut down before its time.
Those who have dreams of a just war, or who think they have power over it, will drown in its wake and shatter at the bottom. Because they will not declare a war, it can not be declared, they will not govern it, it is a collapse of governance. It would be appropriate to think back to that phrase the colonists used in the American Revolutionary War,“An Appeal To God.” The “god” of war does not care for you, nor your cause, and does not know you, nor any of those worshiped for dying heroically, they are forgotten easily, as they were never known to it. And when you die, heroically or otherwise, you will be nothing. So do not idolize the brave fighter or yourself, because you build nothing by fighting, and so nothing is gained from the product of your death.
Ultimately, and perhaps this is an unfair suggestion on my part, but those who would wish for revolution, do not really possess interest in building a better world. They are resigned to having already lost, and so behold that martyrdom is the best future they can hope for themselves. For war is nothing if not destructive. Construction of an optimistic future is impossible in a state of war. And if I may be permitted to speak frankly on my own view of this I would say, it is a disgusting example of apathy. For all apathy is disgusting, but one so destructive, and blind to the beautiful future, misses entirely the principles of communism. Or of any idea which even loosely correlates to morality.
This is not to say it is unacceptable to participate in revolution, far from it. For those who believe they can stop a war are equally foolish. It bubbles up naturally, as an extension of politics, to rephrase Clauswitz. And it would not be preferable that injustice should prevail in such a conflict, this is not a philosophy of naive pacifism, nor appeasement.
Rather, this is an appeal to understand the naked nature of war, without myth and misconception. To understand the horror, and to wade into the black bloody water in spite of it. To smile at the horror, as a friend.