Status Updates From How Revolutionary Were the ...

I'm actually so mad at myself - along with my wider (liberal?) education - for never having come across the distinction between 'social' and 'political' revolution before. Or at least, not as a topic explicitly thematized. Even just having this vocabulary in hand allows one to make sense of so much of history and the present (political = change of guard; social = change in economic and social structure of society).

I'm a small-book length into this and I feel like I'm just getting past some of the preliminary stuff! Anyway - wtf is a bougie revolution? Basically, a revolution against the feudal order, but carried out by the bougies, rather than the proles - all the better to establish generalized property relations. This is less (so far) a history of those revols than an assessment of theories about them. Comprehensive AF.