An essential new contribution to the debate about how Marists should understand the French Revolution.

In this stirring and persuasive defense of the classic Marxist view of the French Revolution as bourgeois and capitalist revoltuion, Henry Heller lays to rest the sylish revisionism on the subject that still dominates in academic circles. Based mainly on articles published in the journal Histroical Materialism, Heller that the rise of a bourgeois capitalist class in France stretches back to the sixteenth century, and that the revoution itself played a large role in strengthening this nascent class politcally and economically.