Some Problems Concerning Revolutionary Consciousness

Abstract

In the analysis of revolutionary change (whether by this is meant the seizure of power or the transformation of the core institutional order or both), the situations in which such change becomes possible have generally been conceived of as a complex combination of two types of conditions. These are, on the one hand, objective or structural conditions including the distribution of power, economic crises, the incapacity of the government to govern, etc, and, on the other hand, subjective factors including the political beliefs or consciousness of one or more sections of the population, political actions etc.