04/25/2026
NEW: “On the Nature of Revolutions” by Khalid Blankinship
The history of revolutions reveals that while they never reproduced the old regime exactly, each nonetheless exhibited a new domination with a new elite.
“The situation today perhaps resembles that of Greece in the fifth century BCE, as described by Thucydides, with many separate city-states under the hegemony of one or another dominant state. The centralizing power of a globalist capitalism, based in the US, struggles to clinch world domination everywhere by stamping out, overthrowing, or subverting the remaining independent states. But this is a quixotic project wholly nullified by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, especially by resistant states such as Russia, China, and North Korea, rendering aggression against them impossible.
Meanwhile, growing inequality replete with hunger and increasing homelessness threatens to create a dissatisfaction that is truly worldwide. Therefore, one cannot say that revolutionism is over or finished. Rather, it must be seen as a continuing phenomenon that wracks various places at various times, just like storms and hurricanes that come and go for complex reasons. But now the stakes are higher and the situation perhaps more dangerous because of the unification of the earth through technology.
Indeed, if nothing is done to redress the inequities of the present, revolutionism may engulf the whole planet, a development hardly to be welcomed, given the histories of the revolutions we have studied here.”
The history of revolutions reveals that while they never reproduced the old regime exactly, each nonetheless exhibited a new domination with a new elite.
