While having lunch with Jun and Jen at Rai Rai after swimming at Rizal, Jun reminded me today is in fact, Bastille day, or the French equivalent of our Indepedence Day. If I am not mistaken (French history is so turbulent), France became a Republic when the Bastille was stormed and taken over by the masses and peasants who drove away the ruling elite- the monarchs and aristocrats-- more than 300 years ago.
The French Revolution reverberated across Europe and even in the New World. This would subsequently set a precedent for mass-led revolutions that toppled tyrannical governments. I believe Marx and Engels did draw from the French experience when they wrote the Communist Manifesto although what they had in mind wasn't Russia, but England.
Just a thought.
The French Revolution reverberated across Europe and even in the New World. This would subsequently set a precedent for mass-led revolutions that toppled tyrannical governments. I believe Marx and Engels did draw from the French experience when they wrote the Communist Manifesto although what they had in mind wasn't Russia, but England.
Just a thought.
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