General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth CenturyThis influential 1851 work was written by the French libertarian socialist and journalist whose doctrines later formed the basis for radical and anarchist theory. This is his vision of an ideal society, in which frontiers are abolished, national states eliminated, and authority decentralized among communes or locality associations, with free contracts replacing laws. |
Contents
GENERAL IDEA OF THE REVOLUTION 5 | 5 |
FIRST STUDY Reaction Causes Revolution | 13 |
SECOND STUDY Is there Sufficient Reason for Revolution in | 40 |
THIRD STUDY The Principle of Association | 75 |
FOURTH STUDY The Principle of Authority | 100 |
Traditional Denial of Government Emergence of the Idea which | 106 |
FIFTH STUDY Social Liquidation | 170 |
SIXTH STUDY Organization of Economic Forces | 205 |
Division of Labour Collective Forces Machines Workingmens | 215 |
Constitution of Value Organization of Low Prices | 224 |
Foreign Commerce Balance of Imports and Exports | 234 |
SEVENTH STUDY Absorption of Government by the Economic | 240 |
Epilogue | 288 |
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