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A History of Revolution
The LRB Podcast
The History of Revolutions
Even Marx didn't see revolutions as emerging in any linear or teleological fashion. Benjamin during the Second World War reversed this image of revolution and said revolutions are not the locomotives of history, but rather the emergency break allowing us to stop these rays of the train towards catastrophe. So I think that the history of revolutions is a permanent swinging between these two poles - revolution as quite naive and generous rays towards the future and revolutions as attempts at stopping incumbent catastrophe.
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