Rethinking Revolution KS such as students radicalised by

such as students radicalised by the 1980s education boycotts and civic protests

and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow willbring

but also what kind of freedom and equality the ability to marry can mobilize

conserve energy

It requires Western states to act decisively to influence the internal political development of the post- communist states themselves

Rethinking Revolution KS such as students radicalised byOne hundred years ago, October 1917 galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacyand transcend it. Social change, as it was understood in the 20th century, appears now to be as impossible as revolution, leaving the left to rethink the relationship between capitalist crises, as well as the conceptual tension between revolution and reform.