THEORY OF REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION

During the entire official Cold War (1945-1991) the subject of this book went into decline. It became an archetype a museum piece. From 1974 the year I published the first edition of Elements of Political Science and on I felt like preaching in the desert. My doctoral thesis The Subversion of the State finished in 1986 seemed to most commoners (vulgus vult decipi...) more like a testament than a prophecy. And then history returned and the past became once again a lesson for the future. Another phoenix was that of the counter-revolution which returned from the annals of political theory to the present. De Maistre de Bonald Edmund Burke and even my Lusitanian Integralists rose from the ashes. Here then is a contribution to that resurrection.