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What is a bourgeois revolution?
How did the capitalist class replace their feudal predecessors?
05 June 2026
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Pauline Leon—a radical ready to die for revolution
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Socialist Review Archive
Do revolutions always fail?
The counter-revolution in Egypt, together with the confused outcome of the upheavals in Ukraine, has revived the old argument that real popular power is impossible. John Molyneux explains why this is wrong.
02 April 2014
