[BEST OF] The French Revolution: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ ? minutes
Summary
ORIGINALLY RELEASED Aug 29, 2022
The rallying cry of liberty, equality, and fraternity echoed through the streets of revolutionary France—and still reverberates through history. In this episode, we examine the French Revolution as a foundational rupture in world history, one that shattered the old feudal order and set the stage for modern capitalism, liberal democracy, and the revolutionary tradition from which subsequent socialist and communist movements would draw inspiration. From the class uprising of the sans-culottes to the radical egalitarian vision of the Jacobins, and from the fall of the monarchy to the rise of Napoleon, we follow the dialectical unfolding of hope and horror, progress and betrayal. What did the revolution achieve, where did it fall short, and what lessons can today's revolutionaries draw from the fire that consumed the Ancien Régime?
Stella joins Breht to discuss (and put a unique communist spin) on the great French Revolution!
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Check out our Paris Commune episode HERE
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