This paper investigates the standard economic paradigm as to the possibility for the agents to become revolutionaries, i.e., to develop the desire and effective action to overturn the prevailing social order. We take our cue from Amartya Sen’s remark that the Second Fundamental Theorem of...

pt. 1. Uncritical complexity -- pt. 2. Bottom-up critical theory : the logic of self-criticizing complexity -- pt. 3. Toward a critical mainstream? -- pt. 4. Critical political economy : the logic of post-orthodox pluralism.