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US Politics 15h
It really does, though. The French revolution probably only happened when it did because of bad harvests. The scale and shape of the revolution - that was what ideology influenced.
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US Politics 20h
Material conditions includes much more than just economic conditions, a country does not necessarily have to be mid economic collapse for a revolution to occur
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Anonymous 14h

It happened because of war debts and aristocratic opposition to taxation

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

The sans-culottes cared more about the price of grain.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

And? They didn’t rebel until the upper classes set the entire thing in motion

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

But yes obviously different classes had different interests that led them to oppose the ancien regime, I’m not saying otherwise

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