How can Carles Manson be called a revolutionary? What was his plan for the revolution? What socio-economic system was he aiming for after the revolution? Besides, just being a revolutionary does not make your cause a good one. Remember, Stalin and Pol Pot were revolutionaries.

Charles Manson believed that the Biblical apocalypse was imminent. This is enough to discount any revolutionary potential in him. Ignoring for now the fact that religion is always a reactionary and anti-revolutionary power, if you believe the end of the world is coming, there's no point in forcefully overthrowing the current social structure. If the fate of humanity is in God's hands, then there's no point in taking it into your own hands (i.e. starting a revolution).

Also, it seems his vision of a "revolution" was a race war larger than any war in history. How ridiculous is that? Sure, there is still plenty of racial tension in the world but I think we can all agree that racism is on the decline and is way less influential on people than it was 25 or 50 or 100 years ago. The world is becoming more and more tolerant, not less.

And any revolution worth fighting will not be a racist one. I'm not going to be getting behind the barricades with the white supremacists just because they're the same color as me. Most real revolutionaries (i.e. communists and anarchists) don't believe in racism, but rather think that the ultimate goal of revolution is an egalitarian society, which includes racial egalitarianism.

When the revolution comes, revolutionaries of all colors will have to band their efforts to collectively overthrow the establishment. If the working class is divided amongst itself, how can it make any real change to the system? How can capitalism and government be done away with if the races are all fighting each other instead of their oppressors? That would make it real easy for the army to just step in and crush the revolution.

Fuck Manson. Long live the revolution.