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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

The French Revolution did not fail. It was a bourgeois revolution that overthrew the feudal government and established a capitalist system. Socialists in the modern sense were not a significant power bloc at that time; the leaders of the third estate were mostly petty bourgeoisie.

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