ABSTRACT
This brief chapter, which, like the former one, is more empirically oriented. It deals with the main political processes we find in political life, either in modernity or authoritarian collectivism. It tackles reproduction, which is never absolute. It analyses political cycles and coups d’état. Crisis return also at a more empirical level. The chapter then defines the more accelerated processes of change and disruptions within reproduction. This is particularly the case of revolution, which may assume a molecular character, but revolts, civil disobedience, civil war and other violent initiatives are accounted for. The tradition of revolutionary and contentious thinking is drawn upon in the development of the chapter.
