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More important? French or Industrial Revolution?

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    Posted: 19-Oct-2009 at 14:07
I'm researching these two topics, and was wondering your viewpoints.  The French Revolution led to revolutionary ideas regarding equality.  There was now equality of all citizens before the law, the right of individuals to choose their professions, religious toleration, and the abolition of serfdom.  Although to get to this point, many people died, and still women were treated unfairly.

But the Industrial Revolution led to our current society today.  Without it, we would never have developed the lifestyles that many people enjoy today. 

What do you guys think?
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Originally posted by hooters950

There was now equality of all citizens before the law, the right of individuals to choose their professions, religious toleration, and the abolition of serfdom. 
The French revolution was simply a development of concepts expressed (to a limited degree) in the English Magna Carta and fully expressed in the United States Constitution. In addition, the French revolution was a short term failure because it did not bring professional choice, equality or religious tolerance. Instead, the French Revolution simply replaced one form of authoratarian government with that of another. For example:

Government: Authoratarian monarch replaced by Authoratarian revolutionaries
Social class: privelaged aristrocrats replaced by privelaged revolutionary academics
Religious Tolerance: Enforced state religion replaced by state enforced secularism quickly followed by state enforced atheism
Professional Choice: restricted in both systems to only those people supporting the "right choices" in government, social class and religion
 
Napoleon's rise as emperor strongly suggests that most French preferred the stable authoratarianism of the monarchy to the tyranny of revolutionary anarchists whose commands changed weekly.  In the end, I think that the industrial revolution more important because it was a true revolution that totally transformed societies and because it was successful. 
 

 



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Both revolutions were bound together. I dare say that one wouldnt happend without the other. When bourgeoisie became richer it also wanted to have its share in power. Rich merchants, industry owners, lawyers and others already had the same monay as aristocrates who were living of their land and paesants but were not allowed to have any real influence on arictocratic/monarchic goverment. The fact that they were not born noble, made them leper in feudal society. So the members of bourgeoisie did want to get power and had the chance to take it because already had the same if not better resources. Thats how can i try to reply in the most simple way.
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