Cabinet Magazine

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Issue 16. "Utopia Beneath the Waves", p. 93:

He experienced the typical evolution of a revolutionary. His first phase, from age 20 to 24, was a violent one. He participated in armed uprisings and became a captain in the militia. Next, he experienced a pacifist revelation, decided he just couldn't stand to look at a gun anymore. And then he committed himself to working for change, but change through the press.

Ibid.:

So he ran a series of journals, each of which went through the same scenario: He'd get a group together, finance it, publish it, write a few articles about liberation, get shut down, then start up another one.