Cyclical Movement towards the 'Eternal' 'Nine Theses of Social Movements': A Critique D Dhanagare J John ANDRE GUNDER FRANK and Marta Fuentes claim to have formulated their 'Nine Theses on Social Movements' (EPW, August 29, 1987). A thesis is' generally understood as a proposition or a set of propositions that is to be maintained first at the logical level and later to be proved at the empirical level. In this sense, a thesis is like a theorem in algebra
