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Marx and Engels on Revolution

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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The Hobbesian Idea of Modern Politics

Tocqueville was deeply impressed by the dynamism of American commercial and economic life. But for all these writers, they weren't really central to the political project. The Communist Manifesto poses one of the fundamental challenges to the basic Hobbesian idea of modern politics.

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