Continuing the Revolution. The Political Thought of Mao.

1981 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Andrew G. Walder ◽  
John Bryan Starr
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Revolution

Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.G.A. Pocock ◽  
Richard Whatmore
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Social Foundations ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Participant Observer ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter studies the era bracketed within the half-century following the Revolution of 1688, in which political thought became engrossed with the conscious recognition of change in the economic and social foundations of politics and the political personality, so that the zōon politikon took on their modern character of participant observer in processes of material and historical change fundamentally affecting their nature. This chapter shows that these changes in perception came about through the development of a neo-Machiavellian, as well as neo-Harringtonian, style in the theory of political economy, in response to England's emergence as Britain—a major commercial, military, and imperial power.

scholarly journals STEPHEN GWYNN AND THE FAILURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL NATIONALISM IN IRELAND, 1919–1921

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 723-745
Author(s):  
COLIN REID
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Revolution

ABSTRACTThe Irish Party, the organization which represented the constitutional nationalist demand for home rule for almost fifty years in Westminster, was the most notable victim of the revolution in Ireland, c. 1916–23. Most of the last generation of Westminster-centred home rule MPs played little part in public life following the party's electoral destruction in 1918. This article probes the political thought and actions of one of the most prominent constitutional nationalists who did seek to alter Ireland's direction during the critical years of the war of independence. Stephen Gwynn was a guiding figure behind a number of initiatives to ‘save’ Ireland from the excesses of revolution. Gwynn established the Irish Centre Party in 1919, which later merged with the Irish Dominion League. From the end of 1919, Gwynn became a leading advocate of the Government of Ireland Bill, the legislation that partitioned the island. Revolutionary idealism – and, more concretely, violence – did much to render his reconciliatory efforts impotent. Gwynn's experiences between 1919 and 1921 also, however, reveal the paralysing divisions within constitutional nationalism, which did much to demoralize moderate sentiment further.

scholarly journals REFLECTIONS ON THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE IRISH REVOLUTION

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 175-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bourke
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Easter Rising ◽  
The World ◽  
Irish Revolution ◽  
Irish Politics ◽  
The Revolution

ABSTRACTExamining the political thought of the Irish Revolution poses two distinct problems. First, we need to establish how we should date the Revolution for the purposes of intellectual history. There is no doubting that the 1916 Easter Rising was an event in British and Irish politics, but it was also an event in the world of ideas. Any serious consideration of this episode and its aftermath therefore needs to trace its origins to patterns of thought as well as shifts in affairs, and the two processes do not necessarily coincide. The second requirement for understanding the role of political thought in the Revolution is to reconstruct carefully the actual doctrines articulated and deployed. Irish historians have been reluctant to engage in this process of interpretation. Yet a more searching account of political ideas in the period has the potential to change our approach to the Revolution as a whole.

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