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‘The French Revolution attacked privileges and not property.’ Comment.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Origins of Modern Politics

The Revolution's radicalism is often overstated: it dismantled feudal and corporate privilege with striking thoroughness while simultaneously entrenching private property as a near-sacred right, revealing its character as a bourgeois rather than a socially levelling upheaval.

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  • The Assault on Privilege
  • The Defence and Even Expansion of Property
  • Why the Revolution Drew This Line

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