French Revolution is very important, and it's much more important Iranian Revolution, Egyptian Revolution — than with bourgeois revolutions in general. ..…

Marx hoped that the outbreak of revolution in Germany in 1848 would bring down this whole edifice, as the great French Revolution of 1789 had done, and usher in, not socialism, but political democracy and capitalist economic development. ..…

Instead, the classical Marxists argued that bourgeois revolutions simply had to clear away obstacles to capitalism and transform the state into a facilitator of capitalist development. Thus bourgeois revolutions could take various forms from the French Revolution to the Meiji Restoration in..…