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...Wang Hui What does it mean to take revolution seriously in a postrevolutionary era? What relevance do twentieth-century revolutionary movements have for contemporary projects of liberation? This essay seeks to answer these questions by tracing the complex legacies and contributions of the Chinese...

... the masses are collectively engaged in action; it is the expression of action itself. In a more general sense, May ’68, the first global protest movement in postwar history, teaches us that revolutions (especially so-called color revolutions) are no simple textbook events: they are propelled by a specific...

...Frances Acomb The Spirit of Revolution in 1789. A Study of Public Opinion as Revealed in Political Songs and Other Popular Literature at the Beginning of the French Revolution . By Rogers Cornwell B. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1949 . Pp. 363 . $5.00. . Copyright ©...

... . 2012 . “ Two Approaches to Socialist Revolution: Marx versus Lenin-Trotsky; Russia 1917 .” Countdown . www.countdowninfo.net/uploads/6/7/3/6/6736569/chattopadhyay_marx_vs_lenin_countdown.doc . Cleaver Harry . 1979 . Reading “Capital” Politically . Austin : University of Texas Press...

...Giso Amendola In the struggles against neoliberalism, it is difficult to reconcile the language of instituent practices and the language of revolution, the transformation of the present in its totality. This difficult link also raises the problem of law. The production of commons is interpreted...

... demonstrates, this cosmopolitanism was particularly motivated by the Russian Revolution, which for Mariátegui was both a key element in his adherence to Marxism and a powerful vector that led him to internationalize his interests and envisage a broad spectrum of cultural and political phenomena throughout...

...Kathy E. Ferguson This essay looks at the Russian Revolution as both a historical event and a productive symbol in the work of anarchists in the United States and Russia in the early twentieth century. The February and October Revolutions were formative in many ways: many immigrants returned...

... education), would and should have culturally revolutionizing effects on “everyday life”—my translation of that untranslatable word byt—something about which his comrade Leon Trotsky in particular wrote a great deal in the early 1920s. The revolution as “turning point” was seen, particularly during...

... to internationalize and undermines their legitimacy, at the national level. Based on this empirical and practical observation, backed with examples from recent protest movements and from the 1917 Russian Revolution, there follows a philosophical analysis of spontaneity, which proves to be a contradictory, dialectical...

...Oleg Aronson; Robert Bird In this essay, Oleg Aronson proposes to view the protests of 1968 as a continuation of the social revolutionary processes initiated by the French Revolution. The author interprets revolution not as an event of historical rupture but as a process of long duration...

...Susan Buck-Morss; Jonathan Flatley; Helen Petrovsky This interview documents an email exchange between Susan Buck-Morss, Jonathan Flatley, and Helen Petrovsky on the occasion of the publication of Buck-Morss’s Revolution Today . © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 the Left Susan Buck-Morss...

...Ranabir Samaddar Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 India revolution anti–Citizenship Amendment Act References Engels Friedrich . (1851) 1896 . Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany , edited by Aveling Eleanor Marx . London : Swan Sonnenschein...

... times, it is the mild liberal-consumerist “join the revolution” discourse put forward by green capitalist ventures. In both cases it raises the question of what is meant by revolution , a term that Arendt observed has both radical and conservative valences. As we contemplate revolutionary solarity...

...Lea Bou Khater In a world dominated by neoliberalism, there is renewed attention to labor organizing and radical forms of action outside the institutional framework. In Lebanon, the October 2019 Revolution brought to the forefront the capacity of labor to recompose its power in the face of the long...

...Sandrine Garcia; Eleanor Kaufman; Toril Moi Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Sandrine Garcia Project for a Symbolic Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Women s Movement in France In the following essay, Sandrine Garcia de­ fines herself as a woman working within the held...

...George Levine George Levine Charles Darwin s Reluctant Revolution Reading against the grain, critics have been arguing repeatedly that writers whose work seems subversive of their culture s values actually incorporate those values into their very critique. The strategy by which repre­ sentations...

...Donald J. Raleigh Donald J. Raleigh Beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg: Some Reflections on the August Revolution, Provincial Russia, and Novostroika Rom its earliest days, the Soviet regime has demonstrated an unrivaled capacity among the major powers to project an image to the outside world...

...Jack P. Greene From the Perspective of Law: Context and Legitimacy in the Origins of the American Revolution A Review Essay by Jack P. Greene I The dramatic expansion of early American history over the past two dec­ ades has not produced an explosion of interest in the American Revolution...

...Nina Baym Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Nina Baym Mercy Otis Warren s Gendered Melodrama of Revolution ^\mong the many Massachusetts intellectu­ als who wrote to support the patriot cause before and during the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) was the only...

...Marie-Claire Vallois 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Translated by John Galvin and Marie-Claire Vallois Marie-Claire Vallois Gendering the Revolution: Language, Politics, and the Birth of a Nation (1789–1795...