But then the old Trotskyite theory of the permanent revolution was predicated on the notion that the forces of counter-revolution, too, were permanent.
Mr Keynes was deposed by an intellectual counter revolution led by Milton Friedman and other economists of the Chicago school.
The Chinese government, though denying it holds political prisoners per se, acknowledges that about 2, 000 people are imprisoned for "counter revolutionary" activities (or for "endangering state security" -- the charge of counter revolution has been removed from China's statute books).
Cuba's then-leader Fidel Castro accused the US mission of becoming the "headquarters of the counter-revolution".
These are threatening moves, but so far at least this does not seem to be a counter-revolution.
And in Orange County, the seat of Mr Reagan's counter-revolution, less than half of all registered voters are Republican.
Plainly, any congressional Republican tempted to betray the counter-revolution by heeding Mr Obama's calls for compromise would be a prime target for attack.
The visa scandal is the beginning of a counter-revolution of sorts not just because of the issues at stake, but because of the younger, centre-right politicians driving the inquiry.
That early bout, however, was cruelly interrupted by what Mr Lindsey calls the industrial counter-revolution: an enthusiasm for collectivism, for national economic planning, and, in its most extreme cases, for communist economies.
Like Mubarak, Shafik is a former Air Force officer with close ties to Egypt's powerful military, "the quintessential candidate of the counter-revolution, " in the words of Khaled Elgindy, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
Our independence was essentially a counter-revolution.
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For one thing, a win for his rival, Ahmed Shafiq, a former air-force commander who was the last prime minister of the fallen president, Hosni Mubarak, would have tipped power entirely into the hands of what many Egyptians regard as the forces of counter-revolution.
Its leaders opposed the revolution that unseated Diaz, and tacitly supported a counter-revolutionary coup.
His revolution had two other noted components: his strong hatred for and desire to counter the influence of the United States led to his forming strong alliances with Iran, Russia and China.
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