Whose books are very rare now and force increases with time. Undoubtedly Revolution and Counter-Revolution, whose first edition was released 50 years ago, belongs to that privileged category. ( Download the book )

In Part I, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira situ unsurpassed clarity, the current crisis in a coherent overall picture and great, showing that what at first seems a chaotic tangle of conflicting events and with no connection to each other, is a multipart process perfectly: the Revolution. In his analysis points to its root causes, its historical stages, agents that promote the essential elements of his doctrine, various land on which it acts, the force of its dynamism, and the "mechanism" of its expansion.

Symmetrically, in Part II is the counter-revolution, theory and methods of action to deal effectively with this process.

Part III, added in 1976, analyzed the historical changes that occurred in the 2nd half of the twentieth century. In 1992 it was revised and enlarged by the author, with notes on the collapse of the communist empire and the so-called post-conciliar crisis "in the Church.

For those who are immersed in the confusion of the dawn of the twenty-first century, nothing can be more beneficial to form a clear and orderly events that will live. This may provide the means to see, judge and act wisely for good.

On Revolution and Counter-Revolution and its Author, are eloquent trials of eminent personalities of the Catholic Church:

1. Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the Sacred College (1960): "The argument of this study is of the highest importance to our times. The analysis is clear, precise and accurate (...) I congratulate the author for this great work. "

2. Thomas Cardinal Tien, SVD (China): "The book is wonderful! Those of us who have personally suffered the effects of communism, we are able to assess the seriousness and urgency of a study of this type. I send you my blessing, and so beautiful I wish that this book will have the widest possible dissemination. "

3. Pizzardo Giuseppe Cardinal, Prefect of the S. Congregation of Seminaries (1964): Referring to test freedom of the Church in the communist state, which Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira viewed in the light of Revolution and Counter-Revolution, the problem of relations between the Church and anti-Christian regimes, which describes as "a most faithful echo of the Documents of the Supreme Magisterium of the Church." We congratulate the author clarified, "deservedly famous for his science philosophical, historical and sociological."

4. Archbishop Romolo Carboni, apostolic nuncio to Peru (1962) and later in Italy: "Reading his book Revolution and Counter-Revolution has caused me a great impression, both for the fairness and accuracy with which analyzes the process of the Revolution and develops the true origins of the collapse of moral values that this confuses the conscience, for the vigor with which points out the tactics and methods of struggle to overcome. "

5. P. Anastasio Gutierrez CMF (1994), one of the greatest canon lawyers of the twentieth century, founding in Rome Iuridicum Claretianum Institutum "Revolution and Counter-Revolution is a masterpiece, whose teachings should be disseminated to penetrate the consciousness of all those who feel truly Catholic. (...) In sum, I dare say it is a prophetic work in the best sense of the term, and that their content should be taught in the higher centers of the Church. "

6. Bishop Giuseppe Pittau, SJ, Titular Archbishop of Castro in Sardinia and former Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University (1996): "With courage and great vision Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira managed to defend the Church and the Papacy against the totalitarianism of the century and against certain trends that have tried to destroy Christian values. "