Western Society

1

by Peter AmannEminent Historian of France, V...

from Eighteenth-Century Revolution

Save for brief intervals, has there ever been a period of modern Western society that has not been an "age of revolution"? (From: Preface, by Peter Amann, Page viii..)

2

by Stuart ChristieScottish Anarchist Writer, Pub..., Albert MeltzerEnglish, Anarcho-communist Act...

from Floodgates of Anarchy

Backward to the natural countryside, the village not tarted up for stockbrokers to live in and the streams not polluted because of the need for profits. But forward to the liberation of the mind from the superstitions of the past, to the ending of sexual puritanism with the incursion of authority into the concerns of humanity. Backward to the society without rulers imposed by conquest. Forward to the society freed from the domination of government or the principle of exploitation. Backward to the workers councils of the Russian and German revolutions; the free communes of Spain, Ukraina, Mexico; the occupation of the places of work in France and Italy; the earliest aims of the British shop stewards' movement and the federalistic conceptions... (From: Chapter 12: Is a Free Society Possible?, Pages 128....)

3

by Marshall Dill Jr.German History Professor, Coll...

from Germany

In September 1814 all Europe went to Vienna -- all Europe, that is to say, that counted politically -- not the Europe of liberals and nationalists, the people who had overthrown their masters, the people of the future, but the dynasts and the bureaucrats, who were to reap the first fruits of the people's labors. (From: Chapter 5: Metternich's Germany (1814-48), Page 86....)

4

by William J. DuikerUnited States Foreign Service ...

from Communist Road to Power in Vietnam

Until a little over a decade ago, there were few basic studies in Western languages of the origins and development of the Vietnamese Communist movement. It retrospect, it is clear that this lamentable ignorance was in no small measure responsible for the tragic involvement of the United States in the civil struggle in that country. (From: Acknowledgments, Page xiii..)

5

by William J. DuikerUnited States Foreign Service ...

from Communist Road to Power in Vietnam

Many of the classical revolutions in modern history -- the French Revolution of 1789, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and, more recently, the revolution in Iran in the late 1970s -- grew out of a relatively spontaneous eruption of popular discontent. Only after the initial stage of popular uprising did a revolutionary organization begin to manipulate these conditions to promote a final and total overthrow of existing authority. (From: Chapter 13: Prospect and Retrospect, Page 351..)

6

by Ernesto Che GuevaraArgentine Marxist Revolutionar...

from May Day

In the face of all the dangers, the threats and aggressions, the blockades, the sabotage, all the divisionists, all those powers who try to restrain us, we must show once more our people's capacity to make their own history.

7

by Louis Napoleon IIIFirst President of France (as ...

from Fall of Paris

It is very difficult in France to make reforms; we make revolutions in France, not reforms. (From: Chapter 2: Empire in Decline, Page 24..)

8

by Larry NealScholar of African-American Th...

from The Black Arts Movement

We advocate a cultural revolution in art and ideas. The cultural values inherent in Western history must either be radicalized or destroyed, and we will probably find that even radicalization is impossible. In fact, what is needed is a whole new system of ideas. (From: Page 447..)

9

by James Steuart18th-Century Scottish Jacobite...

from An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy

...that spirit of liberty, which reigns more and more every day, throughout all the polite and flourishing nations of Europe. (From: Book 1, Preface..)

<< Last Work in Revolution The State	Current Work in Revolution Western Society	Next Work in Revolution >> This is the last lesson.
All Nearby Works in Revolution Oppression Passion Politics Resistance Revolutionaries Rights Social Organization Society Spontaneity State, The Western Society

Western Society

Sections

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Chronology

Share

Comments

Navigation