With the studies in this volume, Stathis Damianakos highlights and simultaneously redefines the concept of the primitive revolution, clarifying the terms of its perpetuation and mainly its transformations, restoring a fruitful dialogue with the initiator of this reflection, Eric Hobsbawm.

Through the example he investigates, he shows the two levels at which this problem should be positioned: the ontologically historical with its distinct temporality and the retrospective re-signification. If there is a continuity between them, it is that of the, albeit changing, reception.

Moreover, the potential of the primitive revolution to transform into a social revolution.

Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition.