How Did Marxism Influence The Outbreak Of The French Revolution

Introduction

The French Revolution has played a key role in shaping the future not only of France but also of the modern Western world. It has been an event full of political and social significance since with it the transition from the old political and economic system, and consequently social, to a new modern system was accomplished, leading thus Europe towards a new era. However, the historiography of the French Revolution is intricate and in order to understand each event, any scholar or student has to deal with several series of challenges. Indeed, the different opinions and interpretations about its causes and its consequences proposed by historians, make the French Revolution one of the most discussed historical subject of the modern history. Such historians are divided between two schools of though: the orthodoxy ideology of the Marxist, who interpreted the French Revolution as a bourgeois revolution, driven by the class struggle between a rising bourgeoisie and an ossified aristocracy that stressed the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Marxists see the French Revolution as an essential turning point in

But among these questions, one seems to be spontaneous: who did influence its outbreak? The 18th century reveals the Enlightenment - a cultural movement that spreading in all Western Europe, turns in a real cultural revolution. What is new in this movement is the will of enlightening the mind of man, benighted of ignorance and superstition, with the use of reason. These new thinkers blindly believed on the power of reason and wanted, in fact, to interpret reality through reasoning. By becoming a cultural revolution, we do not talk about enlightenment only in philosophy and literature, because Enlightenment brought changes in art as well - from the frivolous and exaggerated Rococo to a return toward classic