ABSTRACT
Political revolutions may occur for reasons intrinsic in the powers that be, or for causes inherent in the capitalistic revenues that constitute the basis of power. This chapter argues that each successive form of capitalistic revenue tends inevitably to decline and that out of the dissolution of the old a new form of revenue appears with its corresponding economic organisation. A change in the form of economic revenue necessarily engenders a revolution in political power. The researches we are pursuing brings to light a very remarkable fact, namely, that all variations in the revenues, however produced, always tend to increase political power and render its exercise more authoritative. The new revenue from excluded from political power fought in this case to wrest the sovereignty from the class controlling the revenues of the preceding system, and still maintaining its monopoly in the government of the State.
