French Revolution and the Enlightenment

[Dolerite]

Does anyone have any links to Marxists writing about the class antagonisms preluding the French Revolution or the effect of the Enlightenment on the bourgeoisie?
Thank you.

[Dolerite]

What are our views on Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu?

[Invader Zim]

Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolutions: Europe 1789-1848 (London, 1962).

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Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolutions: Europe 1789-1848 (London, 1962).

Neat, I've heard about Hobsbawm, he seems like a really good historian. I'll check that book out, especially since I have a class on the French Revolution (with a vocally anti-Marxist professor, go figure).

By the way, I can't find any writings on the French Revolution by Marx or Engels. Are there any?

[Invader Zim]

Neat, I've heard about Hobsbawm, he seems like a really good historian.

Well, I'm not sure if i agree, but he has been described as the greatest living historian. So you can't go far wrong reading him. Though, a word of caution, a blotch on his record is his work on the 20th century. He left his field of expertese there.


I'll check that book out, especially since I have a class on the French Revolution (with a vocally anti-Marxist professor, go figure).


Well, its a bit highstreet bookstore for that. You would be better reading George Rudé, and his works should be in your university library.

Edit, if your interested in what Marx had to say on France,

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/france/index.htm

[Dolerite]

Cheers.

[Angry Young Man]

I've seen Eric Hobsbawm speak. He was talking about how the threat of terrorism is inflated