State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: A Study in Political Power and Popular Revolution in Languedoc
(Book #263 in the Historical Materialism Series)
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In contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and its revolutionary bourgeoisie, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not take shape in eighteenth-century France. Through the revolutionary period, the mass of the population consisted of peasants and artisans in possession of land and workshops, all embedded in autonomous communities. The old regime bourgeoisie and nobility thus developed within the absolutist state in order to have the political means to impose feudal forms of exploitation on the people. These class relations, and not those offered in the traditional interpretation, gave rise to the crisis of 1789 and the revolutionary conflicts of the 1790s
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1642599964
ISBN13:9781642599961
Release Date:November 2023
Publisher:Haymarket Books
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.77 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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