A Model of the ‘permanent Revolution’

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-2112|2|1|69-81

ISSN: 0007-1234

Source: British Journal of Political Science, Vol.2, Iss.1, 1972-01, pp. : 69-81

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Abstract

This paper presents a theory of the competition of forces and the resolution of conflict over what system of government a country is to adopt. In scope it extends from the prospect of a novel system within a single state to the distribution of this system among all states; in method it considers political events as elements in a single continuous process, the culmination of which provides the resolution of the conflict. The process described in the paper — the sweep of a revolutionary ideology through resisting countries — is the analogue of the epidemic spread of a disease among a human population, a model which has been thoroughly studied.