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Mr. Marx and I are calling it the Theory of Revolutions as if everything in it was a statement of our theory. Really, it’s all the application of a theory that hasn’t been laid out as a theory yet – at least not in this blog.

Here, as an interim guide to the reader, are the cornerstones of the theory.

·         It’s Speculative Philosophy.

Being nether free-floating interpretation nor an empirical study, the theory applies philosophical principles to a relatively small set of objective facts that do not have to be quantified empirically in order to serve as valid premises.

In other words, it’s neither criticism nor science, but really and only philosophy.

·         It uses Dialectical Logic.

This is difficult to explain very simply and yet clearly. The logic of history is dialectical; since revolutions only occur in and through history, their logic is dialectical too. The movement between conditions that are determined objectively, and the subjectivity of the human person – which takes those conditions as merely the possibilities for their own negation – is dialectical; its logic lays bare the principled basis for the movement.

It’s pretty clear, anyway, that a revolution seeks the negation of the objective conditions (some or all) formerly in existence.

·         Finally, it is Class Analysis.

Being neither idle speculation on the merely subjective propensities of certain personalities, nor free-floating interpretation of theoretically objective but scientifically undetermined elements of mere culture, the theory looks for revolutionary movement when the objective conditions of an economic class are in contradiction with the interests that class subjectively takes, or should take and advance, as its own.

In other words, when people as economic beings find themselves in certain conditions, sometimes they vote, and sometimes they revolt.