Concept

Social revolution

Overview

Social revolutions are sudden changes in the structure and nature of society. These revolutions are usually recognized as having transformed society, economy, culture, philosophy, and technology along with, though more than solely, the political systems.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Social revolution

• Jean-François Lyotard
• Cornelius Castoriadis
• Moses Hess
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• Peter Kropotkin
• Manwel Dimech

Related ideas

• Globe Pequot Publishing Group
• Samuel P. Huntington
• Yale University Press
• Vladimir Lenin
• Philosophy
• Marxism
• Culture
• Methodism
• Psychology
• Revolution
• Technology
• Sage Publishing
• Society
• Oxford University Press
• Economy
• Cambridge University Press

Opposing perspectives

• Reformism
• Anarcho-syndicalism
• Trotskyism

Place in the tradition

Part of Authoritarianism.

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