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Revolution: the theory and practice of an European idea
In: Readings in politics and society
CAN THE WORKERS BE REVOLUTIONARY?*
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 357-379
ISSN: 1475-6765
ABSTRACTIn recent years there has been a marked revival of Marxism in the intellectual life of western societies. This has resulted not only in some impressive synoptic studies dealing with the structure of contemporary capitalist societies, but in a renewed concern with social change in these societies, and specifically with the role of the working class in the future transformation of capitalist society. This paper questions the importance attached to the proletariat as an actual or potential agent of revolutionary change. It asks: why did Marx and Engels see the proletariat in this role? What historical and theoretical considerations led them to this view? How plausible is it? The paper concludes that on the historical and sociological evidence Marx and Engels drew unwarranted inferences concerning the future role of the working class as an agency of the revolutionary transformation of capitalist society.
Inventing the future in spite of futurology
In: Futures, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 369-374
Civilisation at the crossroads: Social and human implications of the scientific revolution
In: Futures, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 90-95
Book reviews
In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 39-52
ISSN: 1468-2699
Reviews: Geography and Regional Administration, French Revolution 1968, The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968, The Student Revolt: The Activists Speak, Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative, Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault, The New French Revolution: A Social ...
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 236-265
ISSN: 1467-9248