French Recolution Interpretations

The French Revolution was one of the main events in History in the eighteenth century. It changed the face of France and also Europe. It began in 1789 and has had major and lasting effects. The French Revolution has many different interpretations on how the French Revolution effected the world and what it did. I will outline the views of the Marxist and revisionist interpretations throughout my essay, I want to compare and contrast the ideological and philosophical ideas of two writers on both sides of the argument focusing on different writers on both sides of the debate.
        The Marxist interpretation really focuses on the Revolution being a war between the classes. They focus on town dwellers who were putting money into communities in France were not given the position which they felt they deserved in the social or political system during this period. Marxist ideas were that the Revolution was “ a force of progress. The fruit and vindication of the enlightenment, it set out to emancipate not just the French but humanity as a whole, from the grip of superstition, prejudice, routine, and unjustifiable social inequities by resolute and democratic political action”this evokes that the Marxist interpretation believes that it has left a lasting effect on the world and that it encourages others to take this point of action. The likes of Jean Jaures wrote on Jacobinism in 1898. He focused on the social aspects of the Revolution and following him was Mathiez his view on Robespierre was that he “was not a dictator hungry for arbitrary power, but a democratic politician responding to popular pressures from Parisian workers” he was passionate about the Terror and Robespierre and did not agree with Aulard’s Danton and viewed him as a “corrupt bourgeois politician” to Mathiez Robespierre was a hero and he detested Danton which his antagonist admired. He is the second major Marxist writer on the French Revolution. Another Marxist writer Lefebvre discusses in his writings...