café revolutionary

English

Noun

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.