![]() Each of these individuals, among many others, earnestly tried to propel the great revolutions of past centuries toward a full realization of their emancipatory goals. All but forgotten, in fact, are the littleknown popular spokespersons who articulated great visions of freedom and often coordinated great insurrectionary uprisings in towns and the countryside, like Thomas Mtinzer, Richard Overton, Daniel Shays, Jean Varlet, Jean Varlin, Louise Michel, and Nestor Makhno. Yet while the names of the tyrants that the revolutions are said to have produced live on as historical villains, the names of the people who tried to rescue their liberatory potentialities are nearly lost, and so too are the exhilarating ideas they propounded. Insofar as these revolutions are remembered at all, they are dismissed as irrelevant failures or as the incubators of authoritarian states and their rulers such as Oliver Cromwell, Maximilien Robespierre, and Joseph Stalin. The era of the great revolutionary movements, from that of the English Revolution of the 1640s to that of the Spanish Revolution of 1936–39, is waning today from the consciousness of even radical young people, let alone the reasonably educated. This book has been written because of a deepening concern I have felt over the past two decades: the ebbing of the revolutionary tradition. 32 The Rise of Proletarian SocialismsĬhapter 33. THE EMERGENCE OF THE INDUSTRIAL PROLETARIATĬhapter. The Revolution of February 1848Ĭhapter 28. From Restoration to RevolutionĬABET, BLANQUI, BUCHEZ, BLANC, AND PROUDHONĬhapter 25. The Insurrection of June 2, 1793Ĭhapter 23. THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY AND EUROPEAN WARĬHAPTER 20. Shays’s Rebellion and the Constitution of 1789 NEW YORK: RADICAL PATRIOTS AND CONSERVATIVE WHIGSĬhapter 14. The Committees of Safety and the Militias Millenarian Sects and Cromwellian GovernmentsīAREBONE’S PARLIAMENT AND THE PROTECTORATEĬhapter 12. The Levellers and the New Model ArmyĬhapter 8. The Rise of Commerce: The Dutch Revolt and Tudor EnglandĬhapter 5. ![]()
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