Seventeen years ago, the fall of Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe discredited Marxism as the main anti-Western ideology (except in places like Latin America or Nepal). Or, it was Marx's view that revolutions are “the locomotives of history.” Consequently, revolution itself ...
Revolution? Revolutions are what Happens to Wheels — the Phenomenon of Revolution, Irish StyleTheories of revolution have gone out of fashion, more or less in tandem with the fashionability of the actual phenomenon itself. Trotsky's notion that war was the locomotive of history now gives us ...
doi:10.1086/598708Ronald Grigor Suny