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Rethinking the French Revolution - Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge (Paperback)
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Rethinking the French Revolution - Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge (Paperback)
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Historians generally--and Marxists in particular--have presented
the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked
the ascendance of the bourgeois as a class, the defeat of a feudal
aristocracy, and the triumph of capitalism. Recent revisionist
accounts, however, have raised convincing arguments against the
idea of the bourgeois class revolution, and the model on which it
is based. In this provocative study, George Comninel surveys
existing interpretations of the French Revolution and the
methodological issues these raise for historians. He argues that
the weaknesses of Marxist scholarship originate in Marx's own
method, which has led historians to fall back on abstract
conceptions of the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
Comninel reasserts the principles of historical materialism that
found their mature expression in Das Kapital; and outlines an
interpretation which concludes that, while the revolution unified
the nation and centralized the French state, it did not create a
capitalist society.
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