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[571] gifts was always accepted. Now this idea was the religious background of the bourgeois a, and the religious color of it was even visible in the moment in which the Goddess of Reason was put on the altar of Notre Dame in Paris. They didn't [wouldn't have?] put it on the altar if they had the feeling that this is a matter of ULTIMATE concern---this is not only a matter of the "third estate" (le tiers état), namely the bourgeois revolt against aristocracy and clergy (the first two estates), but it was a real belief IN social justice (which they wanted to provide) as an ultimate concern. But again the b situation was in the foreground. Bourgeois society became victorious; it already a long time had become very powerful in the old aristocratic system. And after it HAD become victorious, it didn't want to give up its economic superiority over the working classes and the peasants, and was able to establish a system in which the bourgeois upper classes could stop the revolutionary principles in the name of which they had produced the revolution, and so gave occasion to the next wave of revolutions, namely the proletarian revolutions, by keeping the proletariat under their c and economic power. The proletarian d also were often done consciously, and always unconsciously, in the name of an ultimate concern, of religious principles, although they were more e than the original bourgeois revolutions and much more secularized than the original peasant revolutions in the 16th century. Nevertheless the so-called utopian socialists, in contrast to f, were often sectarian people of a strong religious feeling, applying their religious principles

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aRevolution
bEconomy
cPolitics
dRevolution
eSecular
fMarxism

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