Don't look now, but a
counterrevolution against illiberal populism is underway in parts of Europe.
Critique: Thoughtful and thought-provoking, "Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist
Counterrevolution" is an extraordinary and invaluable contribution to the growing library of Soviet political histories and unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections.
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Republicans have joined a ferocious and intensifying decade-long
counterrevolution in an attempt to stop this new majority from governing successfully.
In his interpretation of history, a trend is first reversed by revolution (antithesis) and then challenged by
counterrevolution seeking to restore the ancien regime.
It's an old fight, but a deeper story than most know, and in her exhaustive study, Cohen explores it well, tracing the line from Schlafly's appeal to fundamentalists to the rise of the New Right; from the "hunting" of the Clintons to the long shadow the "sexual
counterrevolution" casts today.
He considers the neoliberal
counterrevolution, the privatization of the welfare state, the emergence of totalitarian markets, the scientific governance by numbers of both bourgeois economics and scientific socialism, the return of feudalism and the privatization of laws, rethinking economic measurement, and how the quest for "responsible capitalism" distracts from the struggle for social justice.
Driven by his malignance and desire for vengeance, he would trigger and fuel a malicious
counterrevolution. Unfortunately, he has enough resources to do so and several factors will even make it easy.
In Revolution and
Counterrevolution I seek to explain how a socialist movement "that promised thoroughgoing social equality transformed into its opposite--a system of exploitation and repression" (2).
Yet the Arab Spring was in itself an opportunity for Israel to readjust and to participate in the
counterrevolution, directly at times, and through allies at others.
Taking into consideration the extraordinary identities of its new inmates, Tora Prison might better be described as the
Counterrevolution Command Council.
Summary: Egypt's new military rulers assured the nation Thursday they would guard against what protesters have called a
counterrevolution by associates of Hosni Mubarak.
But love is fuelled by unconscious compulsions which turn revolution into
counterrevolution - the 're-becoming' of all that we meant to leave behind.
