Biblioteca / 2010-2021
Neil Davidson. How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?
Haymarket, 2012.
Edición española, Transformar el mundo. Revoluciones burguesas y revolución social. Barcelona: Pasado y Presente, 2013. Traducción: Juanmari Madariaga.
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