... any, occurred and who were the ones to benefit if any changes did indeed occur, I should then be able to draw a conclusion as to why the Marxist historians see the French Revolution as Bourgeoisie'. By the time Louis XVI came to the thrown in 1774 his kingdom was deeply in dept. In his attempts to avoid bankruptcy after committing his country to ... class antagonisms that led to the founding of a new order. Soboul in true Marxist tradition saw the "incompatible interests of the two social categories- as being a fundamental cause of the French Revolution. He states that certain factions ...

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... their social consequence were very dramatic for the working class. A comparison between Britain's Industrial revolution and France's Industrial revolution both has very different realities and responses. Great Britain was the homeland of the industrial revolution, which began in the middle of the eighteenth century. Yet the French were the unquestioned leaders in the development of socialism and working class consciousness. After 1750, ... an agricultural sector in the economy, which workers could fall back on, and their industrial cities had not been as unsanitary for their population. F...

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... something to benefit the people amid increasing social chaos, socialism looked attractive and many Marxist ideas gained popularity and support. This struggle was echoed throughout much of the world. The French Revolution was perceived as a great success for democracy. Its three key aims of liberty, equality and fraternity became desirable objectives. In the late 1960's, the concept of moral decline ... This was perhaps the most practical, common sense, ideological force amongst the popular classes. This new hegemonic voice needed popular conception of the French revolution to change. So...

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... taxes and foreign investment had to increase. Eventually, these problems with food shortages and the poor economy led to dissatisfaction of the government by the citizens, helping cause the Russian Revolution. Industrializing Russia was going to be a big problem for the urban working class, creating social problems. These factory workers experienced extremely unfair and inhumane working conditions. These workers could ... or intellectual freedoms, and no social legislation or representation in the government. These corrupt leaders did not want to modernize Russian, and were strongly again...

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... equity. In Burke's "letter to a member of the National Assembly", printed in 1791, Rousseau was blamed as being a primary factor in the occurrence of the French Revolution, along with the excesses of terror which accompanied the revolution. Placing a high level of inequity, with peasants feeling they are treated unfairly and struggling, in the context of an environment where there were political ideas being ... ability to raise taxes from the first and second estate, the burden rested with the Crown and the peasants. Therefore, money was also a significant issue in the occurrence of the...

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... 's, "Only in socialism and communism can we find our liberation" (Teodoru, 1998). Ho Chi Minh tried to create a socialist revolution in Vietnam aimed at the rising of the whole nation in order to overthrow the ruling French and become independent. Through revolution, the Vietnamese people would get the satisfaction of knowing that they were contributing to a great cause in that their country ... would be ruled by the people of Vietnam. This is the basis premise of a nationalist revolution. Ho's management of this cause showed clearly that revolution was both a science and an ... belief...

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... earlier, just as liberals may have got their lead from the French Revolution . However not only liberals got their ideas from the French Revolution, as Woolf states . The Socialist [second] International was formed in 1889, in honour of the centenary of the French Revolution . This is another example of Woolf's dead mind'- feeding off the French Revolution which occurred 100 years earlier, even though the ideas might have ... peace. This illustrates Woolf's theory of communal psychology- a whole group of people thinking alike which could change the political and social situation in Europe...

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... Manifesto, a document outlining 10 immediate measures towards Communism, "ranging from a progressive income tax and the abolition of inheritances to free education for all children." When the Revolution erupted in Europe in 1848, Marx was invited to Paris just in time to escape expulsion by the Belgian government. He became unpopular to German exiles when, while in ... be printed. The one increases the effect of the other and thus, the downward spiral. Marx views revolution with two perspectives. One takes the attitude that revolution should be a great uprising like that of the French re...

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... Partei), declaration of principles and objectives of the Communist League (a secret organization of émigré German artisans and intellectuals), published in London in 1848, shortly before the February Revolution in Paris. Written by Karl Marx in collaboration with Friedrich Engels, the Manifesto is divided into four sections, preceded by an introduction that begins with the provocative words, "A specter is ... spectre is haunting Europe "the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizo...

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... the powerless many. Each system, therefore, was racked by conflict. Moreover, each method of exploitation had flaws that sooner or later destroyed it, either by slow disintegration or by revolution. Engels and Marx believed that the capitalist system, too, was flawed and therefore bound to destroy itself. They tried to show that the more productive the system became, the ... from the very beginning there were attempts to destroy it by force of arms, attempts that may have reinforced the endeavor of the Communist government to save itself by promoting revolution everywhere. Yet in its iso...

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... following the power vacuum left by Japanese occupation after their defeat of World War II, ICP formed a Vietnamese Independence League- the Vietminh. The Vietminh was an umbrella grouping of anti-French and anti-Japanese nationalists, but with the handle of an umbrella-hence control-held firmly in hidden communist hands. To Ho Chi Minh and the ICP, the success of the ... been completed, the ICP could abandon its bourgeois and progressive allies' in the Vietminh and move to implement its Marxist-Leninist agenda. With successful establishment of Vietminh, the 1945 August revolution shaped...

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... production industry, causing overproduction of industrial goods and overemphasis on meeting production figures. The debt that was quickly collecting emphasized the gap between western success and European success. The revolution began with scholars realizing that in order to be successful, European society had to be modeled after Western society to become internationalized. This shift allowed for more freedom of ... By denying the girls the right to wear the hijab, the government is saying that wearing the hijab is not acceptable in French culture, as a result forcing them to assimilate ...

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... the powerless many. Each system, therefore, was racked by conflict. Moreover, each method of exploitation had flaws that sooner or later destroyed it, either by slow disintegration or by revolution. Engels and Marx believed that the capitalist system, too, was flawed and therefore bound to destroy itself. They tried to show that the more productive the system became, the ... from the very beginning there were attempts to destroy it by force of arms, attempts that may have reinforced the endeavor of the Communist government to save itself by promoting revolution everywhere. Yet in its iso...

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... time that would have a eruptive impact society's subconscious. The philosophical values that carried notions of natural human rights and power were unexplained by the counterrevolutionary outcomes. The American Revolution today can be summarized as the uprising of American patriots against the British rule's unfair taxation to the colonies. The middle-class merchants and farmers resisted paying their taxes, ... unemployment during the frequent downturns of the business cycle, which brought into question many of the conditions that they endured. Prevalent ideologies were born in respons...

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... Vietnam, and acted as the country's leader. As the president of Vietnam, he enacted various policy initiatives in order to help the country in regards to taxes and starvation. The French refused to recognize Vietnam's independence, and Ho Chi Minh continued to fight for the independence of his country, although he was never entirely successful. Vietnamese nationalism and Vietnamese communism are ... necessarily naturally follow the other. The nationalism ideology focuses more towards the liberation of the country from foreign imperialism. The communist ideology was less broad, and focus...

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... to produce the Communist Manifesto. The revolutions of 1789 and 1830 made the French capital a natural place to develop his theory on class struggles. It was here that Marx could observe a revolution by the working class against an oppressive elite group. In 1845 Marx was ordered ... formulate a statement of principles. The Communist Manifesto was a declaration of the objectives of the Communist League, published eventually in London shortly before the revolution in Paris. Engels initially wrote a draft in a question and answer form, he wrote to Marx insisting that they drop this form an...

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... begin with each Marx's approach to social inequality, which he believed economic factors to be the sole cause of this social phenomenon. Marx was born in the aftermath of the French revolution where the governing elite was overthrown by the bourgeoisie allowing capitalism to develop. This in turn gave rise to a new class where Marx put all his hope in. However, Marx ... society owned the land, inequality was born (Owen: 20). Marx's ideas were based on the presupposition of what is generally going to happen by interpreting the French revolution and its consequences. For Marx the French r...

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... in reality control events. In the first half of the 19th century great changes were taking place in Europe. Under the energy of the industrial revolution, factory production was advancing in leaps and bounds, and with it, the economic power of the manufacturers. They became the most active section of ... This class of capitalists had grown up out of the small masters or "burgesses" of the cities and is also known by the French word "bourgeoisie". But the industrial revolution which pushed the manufacturers to the front also brought an increase in the number of factory workers. It gave bi...

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... capitalism. Physiocracy implied that the existence of a natural order in economics made it possible for people to be prosperous without interference from the state. Francois Quesnay, a French economist leader of the physiocrats, believed that only the agricultural classes are capable of producing surplus out of which the state could find the capital to support an expansion ... to the workers. Aided by revisions in agricultural culture, transportation, and communications, England was able to become the "first industrial nation". There were some other consequences of the industrial revolu...

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... the nationalisation of one industry or another, or of transport, and pay rises. Contrary to these illusions, Marxism-Leninism states that the transition to socialism is effected by a social revolution as Lenin proved the objective need for such revolutionary and reformist directives and programmes (Zagladin V.V. 1973:137-138). Karl Marx (1818-1883) claimed that genuine change or total transformation ... African region have resulted in much worse revolutionary situations sparking the wrestle of power from the ruling class through military action with loss of lives. By the same measure t...

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... of strategies attempting to eradicate colonization is one where the side, which incurs the greatest bloodshed, rises as victor. This strategy was best demonstrated in the Algerian-French conflict through revolutionary decolonization as Fanon and Césaire express through Marxist theories. Whereas Gandhi voiced for a peaceful battle, as an example of negotiated decolonization who ... colonizers capitalism must not exist. Yet, he simultaneously emphasized those who were colonized became complacent with their status. He called for the break away of French culture, including the French lang...

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... class also began to gain political power, destroying the remainder of the old feudal society seeking to restrict their ambition. According to Marx, the French Revolution was the most significant instance of this form of bourgeois independence. (pg.484) Indeed, Marx thought bourgeois control so dangerous he says, " ... ; they only seek to cultivate a consciousness in the proletariat. (pg. 484) "We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy." (pg. 490) ... proletariat ...

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... an iron cage of rationality and bureaucracy." Finally, Durkheim "believed that industrialization would lead to decreasing social solidarity." These three all envisioned different impacts the Industrial Revolution would have on people in society. Karl Marx had Alienation, Max Weber had Rationalization, and Durkheim had Solidarity. Three of the most important sociological theorist in history are Karl ... of an idea bureaucracy was a hierarchy of command, impersonality, written rules of conduct, advancement based on achievement, specialized division of labor and efficiency. Emile Durkheim ...

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... writers of the Constitution "were determined to end the period of economic depression, social uncertainty, and very weak central government that had followed independence" (McKay, 695). After the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were written. These two documents were the basis of this constitution, and its purpose was to develop a working government and help ... Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848, and it is considered "one of the greatest revolutionary documents"(Beatty/Johnson, 174). Marx and Friedrich wanted to push the pro...

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"The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas" (Marx, 29). The Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 ... advocates, and the effects the document had on the international community after its publication. The Communist Manifesto gives insight into Europe's hierarchal social structure of the 19th centuary. After the French Revolution, feudalism was overthrown and replaced by free trade, which birthed a new class known as the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie are millio...

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