café revolutionary

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café revolutionary (plural café revolutionaries)

  1. Synonym of champagne socialist.
    • 1978 November 12, Jose Yglesias, “Fiction Roundup”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      They reveal his most intimate feelings about being a European revolutionary in a third‐world movement and about his love for a woman activist. But the language of his confessions never rises above the rhetoric of a cafe revolutionary.
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