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Jacobins, Bolsheviks, and the Dream of Revolution: October 1917 in the Trajectory of a Brazilian Metalworker of African Descent

Jacobins, Bolsheviks, and the Dream of Revolution: October 1917 in the Trajectory of a Brazilian... October 1917 in the Trajectory of a Brazilian ­ etalworker of African Descent John D. French and Alexandre Fortes Bloody massacres, cruel killings, and monumental suffering are inextricably und up with the world historical revolutions that defined the trajectory of global modernity: the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. The image of Jacobins and lsheviks, revolutionaries with hard hearts for dark times, symlized the subversive ideologies of the two movements: the radically antifeudal “rights of man” liberalism of the former and the anticapitalism and anti-imperialism of international communism. As the centerpiece of the Age of Revolutions, the dramatic events in France and Haiti were ave all a phenomenon of the Atntic and Mediterranean worlds encompassing the western portion of the Eurasian nd mass and its near periphery (the Americas). After 1917, European colonialism, an increasingly integrated global market, and the communications revolution allowed the Russian Revolution, on a pnetary scale, to attract hundreds of thousands of sympathizers and followers—as well as rabid opponents—while giving rise to the most ambitious organized international political movement in world history. What can we learn from the Brazilians who embraced a revolutionary vocation in the wake of the October http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas Duke University Press

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Abstract

October 1917 in the Trajectory of a Brazilian ­ etalworker of African Descent John D. French and Alexandre Fortes Bloody massacres, cruel killings, and monumental suffering are inextricably und up with the world historical revolutions that defined the trajectory of global modernity: the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. The image of Jacobins and lsheviks, revolutionaries with hard hearts for dark times, symlized the subversive ideologies of the two movements: the radically antifeudal “rights of man” liberalism of the former and the anticapitalism and anti-imperialism of international communism. As the centerpiece of the Age of Revolutions, the dramatic events in France and Haiti were ave all a phenomenon of the Atntic and Mediterranean worlds encompassing the western portion of the Eurasian nd mass and its near periphery (the Americas). After 1917, European colonialism, an increasingly integrated global market, and the communications revolution allowed the Russian Revolution, on a pnetary scale, to attract hundreds of thousands of sympathizers and followers—as well as rabid opponents—while giving rise to the most ambitious organized international political movement in world history. What can we learn from the Brazilians who embraced a revolutionary vocation in the wake of the October

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Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the AmericasDuke University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2017

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