The Principles of Revolution: A study in ideals - Softcover

Burns, Cecil Delisle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1729405223 ISBN 13: 9781729405222

Publisher: Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

Burns’ The Principles of Revolution is remarkably stimulating book, written with a multiple purpose. It is in part a study in the history of revolutionary social philosophy, in part a study in the revolutionary process, and lastly it is written with the unexpressed but still unmistakable desire to prepare the way for the ideal revolution of the future. Proceeding on the supposition that “only dead men know the tunes the live world dances to,” he singles out the great revolutionary prophets of modern times (Rousseau, Karl Marx, Mazzini, William Morris, Leo Tolstoy) for an admirably objective analysis of the type of ideals which promote revolution. In the second part of the book he endeavors to define revolution. He calls it a sudden and radical change in social habits and social organization. He contributes nothing new to the theory of the objective revolutionary process, for he is primarily interested in revolutions as in part the effects of social idealism. — Walter L. Dorn, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jul., 1925), pp. 111-112

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1729405223
• ISBN 13: 9781729405222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 187
• Editor: Kim Doyle