系列：新政治学中的纽约州立大学
解放革命挑战了我们理解革命是什么的观念。目前对革命的所有理解都是对国家的不同描述。为了解放革命，我们必须在不确定其路线或限制其能力的情况下解释根本性的变革。内森·埃克斯特朗回顾了历史上早期的革命理论——社会契约理论、马克思主义、黑格尔主义、自由主义、共产主义、极权主义和马基雅维利主义——并研究了它们如何描述政治变革。然后，他提出了一种新的变革理论，称为动态无政府主义，借鉴了事件本体论对根本变革的讨论、系统论对动态和适应性系统的理解，以及无政府主义试图独立于国家思考政治的尝试。在最后一章中，《解放革命》提出了如何有效地进行彻底变革的建议。鉴于微观和全球的发现，这本书对如何更好地理解变革的持续讨论做出了宝贵贡献，它为好奇为什么革命往往无法实现其目标的学生，或任何学习政治理论如何描述变革的人，提供了有用的想法。
Liberating Revolution: Emancipating Radical Change from the State
Series: SUNY in New Political Science
Liberating Revolution challenges the idea that we understand what revolution is. All current understandings of revolution are different ways of portraying the state. To liberate revolution, we must explain radical change without determining its course or limiting what it can do. Nathan Eckstrand reviews earlier theories of revolution from history–social contract theory, Marxism, Hegelianism, liberalism, communism, totalitarianism, and Machiavellism–and studies how they describe political change. He then puts forth a new theory of change called Dynamic Anarchism, drawing on Event Ontology’s discussions of radical change, systems theory’s understanding of dynamic and adaptive systems, and anarchism’s attempts to think of politics independent of the state. In its final chapter, Liberating Revolution advises how to produce radical change effectively. A valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of how best to understand change given discoveries both microscopic and global, this book offers useful ideas to students curious about why revolutions often fail to achieve their goals or to anyone learning how change is depicted in political theory.
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