Abstract
While there is much to like in Simon Springer’s article, in this commentary I would like to re-examine several concepts that Springer consigns (much too prematurely, in my view) to the dustbin. Two of these he identifies quite explicitly—vanguardism and revolution; a third by implication—important dimensions of the state.
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