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Is the French Revolution Really a Political Revolution?
Edmund burke famously writes his reflections on the revolution in france. He says that if you try to completely overturn a social order, only possible result can be totanitarian government and terror. But i think o're moving through the history tatthat the for the nineteenth century and for the radical tradition. The issue which the french revolution really puts on the table is whether a revolution is going to be merely political in nature. Or whether your revolution is actually trying to create actual social equality.