General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; TO BUSINESS MEN.; GENERAL IDEA OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.; FIRST STUDY. -- Reaction Causes Revolution.; 1. The Revolutionary Force.; 2. Parallel Progress of the Reaction and of the Revolution since February.; 3. Weakness of the Reaction: Triumph of the Revolution.; SECOND STUDY. -- Is there Sufficient Reason for Revolution in the Nineteenth Century?; 1. Law of Tendency in Society. -- The Revolution of 1789 has done only half its work.; 2. Chaos of economic forces. Tendency of society toward poverty.;This influential 1851 work was written by the French libertarian socialist and journalist whose doctrines later formed the basis for radical and anarchist theory. This is his vision of an ideal society, in which frontiers are abolished, national states eliminated, and authority decentralized among communes or locality associations, with free contracts replacing laws.