Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt | International Journal of Middle East Studies

Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt | International Journal of Middle East Studies

Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt - Volume 56 Issue 2

The Geopolitics of Revolution and Counterrevolution

Although in The Communist Manifesto Marx wrote of an ongoing dissolution of nationalities within a cosmopolitan world economy, in nearly all of his commentary on the times he portrayed the Europe of his times as trapped within a post-Napoleonic settlement bolted into place by parliamentary England at the one pole and Tsarist Russia at the other. Marx assumed that the characteristic forms of modern bourgeois society depended upon the persistence …