Neil Davidson. How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?

Contents

Preface

SECTION ONE

Prehistory: Insights and Limitations

1 – The Concept of “Revolution”: From Tradition to Modernity

2 – Interpreting the English Revolutions: Hobbes, Harrington, and Locke

3 – Stages of Development: French Physiocrats and the Scottish Historical School

4 – The American Theory of Political Revolution

5 – The Contradictions of the French Revolution (1): Barnave and His Contemporaries

6 – The Contradictions of the French Revolution (2): Burke and His Critics

7 – The Bourgeoisie and the Concept of Social Revolution: From Consolidation to Abdication

SECTION TWO

Origins, Developments, Orthodoxy

8 – Marx and Engels (1) 1843–47: Between Enlightenment and Historical Materialism

9 – Marx and Engels (2) 1847–52: The Bourgeois Revolution in Theory and Practice

10 – Marx and Engels (3) after 1852: Transitions, Revolutions, and Agency

11 – Classical Marxism (1) 1889– 1905: Bourgeois Revolution in the Social Democratic Worldview

12 – Classical Marxism (2) 1905–24: The Russian Crucible

13 – The Emergence of Orthodoxy: 1924–40

14 – Classical Marxism (3) 1924–40: Rethinking Bourgeois Revolution—Strategy, History, Tradition

SECTION THREE

Revisions, Reconstructions, Alternatives

15 – Revisionism: The Bourgeois Revolutions Did Not Take Place

16 – From Society to Politics; from Event to Process

17 – “The Capitalist World-System”

18 – “Capitalist Social Property Relations”

19 – “Consequentialism”

SECTION FOUR

The Specificity of the Bourgeois Revolutions

20 – Between Two Social Revolutions

21 – Preconditions for an Era of Bourgeois Revolution

22 – Patterns of Consummation

Epilogue: Reflections in a Scottish Cemetery