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Liberalism and radicalism in France

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The French labor movement recovered but slowly from the loss of blood in the Commune, on the soil of a retarded industrial growth, and in a nationalistic atmosphere of the most noxious greed for "revenge." Wavering between an anarchistic "denial" of the state and a vulgar-democratic capitulation to it, the French proletarian movement developed by adaptation to the social and political framework of the bourgeois…
Leon Trotsky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Close in meaning to Liberalism and radicalism in France; the term itself is not named.
During the last phase of the counter-revolution, and still more during the long pause in the political movement which followed, each member of the group entered upon a series of revolutionary efforts more or less resembling those of the central nation. And our recent political changes cannot but strengthen this tendency; though of course with nations less fully prepared the results of these efforts have at present…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
Close in meaning to Liberalism and radicalism in France; the term itself is not named.
So then each one of the different classes employed its own suitable religion, the landholding squires catholic jesuitism or protestant orthodoxy, the liberal and radical bourgeois rationalism, and it makes no difference therefore whether people themselves believe in their respective religions or not. Thus we see religion once arisen contains material of tradition, hence in all ideological matters religion is a great…
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
Close in meaning to Liberalism and radicalism in France; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- French Revolution
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Liberalism
- Classical radicalism
- French Third Republic
- Economic liberalism
- French Revolution of 1848
- Raymond Aron
- Voltaire
- Marquis de Condorcet
- Montesquieu
- France
- Georges Clemenceau
- Doctrinaires
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.
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