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What is the role of the bourgeois/bourgeoisie in the French Revolution

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Marx was one of many thinkers who treated the French Revolution as a revolution of the bourgeois. In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie plays a heroic role by revolutionizing industry and modernizing society.

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