H.M. Hyndman, The Evolution of Revolution, Boni and Liveright, New York, 1921.
Transcribed by Chris Clayton.
Marked up by Chris Clayton & Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
Proofread by Chris Clayton (July 2006).
TO
MY COMRADES OF THE
OLD SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION
THE PIONEERS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM
IN GREAT BRITAIN
1880–1911
Erratum |
Preface
Introduction
Section I
The First Social Revolution
I. Primitive Communism
II. Equality within the Gens
III. The Decay of the Gentile System
IV. The Beginning of Private Property
V. Labour under Communism
Section II
The Rise and Fall of Slavery
VI. The Early Chattel Slave System
VII. Slavery in Greece
VIII. Slavery under Rome
IX. Slave Revolts
X. Slavery in Decline (1)
XI. Slavery in Decline (2)
Section III
Exchange and Usury
XII. The Rise and Power of Gold
XIII. The Development of Usury
Section IV
Economic Backwaters
XIV. Peru
XV. China
Section V
The Beginnings of Modern Social Life
XVI. Chaos
XVII. Feudal origins
XVIII. The Jacquerie and the Paris Rising
XIX. The Peasants’ War in England
XX. The German Bauern Krieg
Section VI
The Two Great Bourgeois Revolutions
XXI. The English Bourgeois Revolution
XXII. The French Bourgeois Revolution
Section VII
The Growth of Capitalism and Socialism
XXIII. The Forerunners of Forty-eight
XXIV. Forty-eight and Seventy-one
XXV. The Rise of English Capitalism
XXVI. Useless Revolts against Capital
Section VIII
The Present Time
XXVII. The Limits of Historic Determinism
XXVIII. The Rise and Fall of the Chartist Movement
XXIX. The Period of Apathy
XXX. Towards a Co-operative Commonwealth
XXXI. “International”
XXXII. The League of Nations
XXXIII. Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution
XXXIV. Conclusion
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