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The Sociology of the Revolution

Designing the Revolution

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The Left-Right Division in Historical Sociology

Sociology of revolution shows that materialist reductionism is a very vulgar way of looking at history and historical sociology. Materialist reductionism means that there's stuff and the stuff relates to each other in a mechanical way. And it deterministically produces certain outcomes, such as contradictions in capitalism. But historical sociology is saying no, right? If we look, you know, at the mind, if we look at the actual weeds, as it were, of history, we see ecologies of connection. In other words, those loads of different groups,. those loads of interactions, it's not deterministic, It's complex, and yes, there's variations on general themes but you need

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