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⁸ Though Hill refers to the outcome of the English Revolution as “closer to the Prussian model than the French” (III, 113), he recognizes elsewhere that the Prussian and Japanese revolutions “from on top” could only happen after capitalist dominance had first been established in other countries “from below” (III, 123).

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