ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with some trends of bourgeois social thought as reflected in writings published on the threshold of the seventies. It suggests the reasons for the bourgeois ideologists’ increased interest in the problems of social revolution. Bourgeois thinking distorts the nature and laws of social revolution beyond recognition. It often reduces the very concept to a pointless abstraction. One typical tendency of bourgeois sociology and politology is to substitute technological for social revolution. It is on this methodological basis that various ‘modernization’ theories are conceived. Theories expressing the views and sentiments of radical petty bourgeois, intellectuals and students have gained some currency in bourgeois sociology and politology. The ideology of petty-bourgeois radicalism can grasp neither the dialectics of the world revolutionary process nor the historic role of social forces, first of all the international working class and socialism as a reality, which blaze new trails.
