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What happened after the revolution was not pretty [1]. What followed made Karl Marx write the "The Class of Struggles" [2] Excerpt from the wiki: "The industr

What happened after the revolution was not pretty [1]. What followed made Karl Marx write the "The Class of Struggles" [2] Excerpt from the wiki: "The industrial bourgeoisie still occupied a comparatively privileged position within society and government and this fact, Marx argues, placed them in essentially the main camp as the financial bourgeoisie" You see the same pattern emerged. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Reign_of_Terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Reign_of_Ter... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Class_Struggles_in_France,_1848%E2%80%931850 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Class_Struggles_in_France,... Note: I do not subscribe to the communist ideology but the fact someone notable had observed the class struggles means common people might have felt more-or-less the same as lot of poor or middle class people today.

082349872349872 6y ago
After the revolution, the Bourbons had "learnt nothing and forgotten nothing." We, on the other hand, were happy to move on to a new future containing the best of the revolutionary and the ancien régime, instead of blindly insisting on returning to the status quo ante. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24145281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24145281 Note: poor and middle class people today[1] are almost by definition sans-culottes[2]. [1] with the notable exception of those who wear pedal pushers! Due to stretch fabrics, even jodhs and breeches are typically full length. [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24103107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24103107
Cantbekhan 6y ago
Isn't it more "Struggle of the classes"? Or "Classes struggle"? And not "The Class of Struggles" ?
- sudeepj 6y ago
  You are right, my bad. It was a typo.