Answer to Question #149962 in History for Doug Judy

Question

What sorts of interpretive problems arise when considering the liberal democratic revolutions of the period 1776-1848 as “bourgeois revolutions”?

Answer 1

The bourgeoisie were revolutionary in the sense that they represented a radical change in the structure of society. In Marx's words, “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other—Bourgeoisie and Proletariat” (Marx and Engels 1848).