Revolutionaries Without a Cause, by Stephen Soukup

By Stephen Soukup, American Greatness, May 4, 2026

Stephen R. Soukup is the Director of The Political Forum Institute and the author of The Dictatorship of Woke Capital (Encounter, 2021, 2023)

Modern Western unrest stems from a long institutional “war of position” that outlived its revolutionary purpose, leaving frustration, drift, and recurring political violence.

In the week-plus since the latest attempt on President Trump’s life, many on the Right and in the political Center are, at long last, waking up to the possibility that the political opposition today is not entirely normal. It’s not unprecedented either, but it’s far from what we have come to expect in the so-called “civilized” world. As the polymath and public intellectual Eric Weinstein put it on Twitter/X, “These aren’t deranged liberals. They are normalized revolutionaries.”

By now, the story of how these revolutionaries came to be normalized is well-worn. In the aftermath of World War I, during which the workers of the world failed to unite, failed to lose their chains, and chose instead to fight for God and country, Europe’s Marxists realized that their long-promised and much-anticipated proletarian revolution was not going to happen—or at least it was not going to happen on its own, without a spark of some sort. …

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