Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Books: How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions?
A classy analysis of the bourgeois revolutionary era
How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions?
by Neil Davidson
(Haymarket, £22.99)
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