The idea for a one post blog is a foil to consider the issue of the politics of evolution by focusing on one key moment in the emergence of modern politics. But our real subject is the larger context of the eonic effect, and theory and ideology. On the way it is worth looking at the main event: the emergence of liberalism, and the Marxist response to that. And that leads to the question of historical theory.
The eonic model beats all parties hands down here, and offers a new way to examine both liberalism and the theories of historical materialism. Among other things.
In general, theories of revolution have proven problematical, as have theories of evolution/historical dynamics. The fate of Marxist theory suggests the need for a re-examination of the whole question.
So one thing leads to another and before you know we will have the Huffingpost for the ultra far left, hey, what’s that?
Anyway, that’s our starting point: the era of the 1848 revolutions.
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