Why Is Lawrence Considered A Revolutionary?

As said above, Lawrence viewed modernity as a social disease that must be cured, and he “was not merely a gadfly──he was a (literary) revolutionary.” Consequently, he offered in many of his works directly or indirectly solutions to modify or even to replace the existing social order. In different stages of his life, he had different opinions of how the disease should be cured. At first, he thought that it could be done by means of political interference, as he wrote that “economic life must be the means to actual life...... There must be a revolution in the state...... The land, the industries, the means of communication and the public amusements shall all be nationalized.” What Lawrence tries to say here is that the political system should