The making of a "Bourgeois Revolution".

From: Social Research | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

TO ENTERTAIN ANY THEORY ABOUT REVOLUTION," WRITES JOHN DUNN, "--and it is not even possible to identify just what events do constitute revolutions without assuming some theory about the meaning of revolution--is to assume a political posture.... The value-free study of revolutions is a logical impossibility for those who live in the real world" (Dunn, 1972: 1-2). For the student of revolutions the problem is complicated by the fact that the political postures assumed spontaneously by those who write or speak about them, and, if not careful, by himself or herself, are not ...

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