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	The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation." —[[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''[[Manifesto of the Communist Party]]'', Ch. I, "Bourgeois and Proletarians"</blockquote>		The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation." —[[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''[[Manifesto of the Communist Party]]'', Ch. I, "Bourgeois and Proletarians"</blockquote>

			==Differences from socialist revolutions==
			According to [[Joseph Stalin]], bourgeois revolutions diverge from [[Socialist revolution\|proletarian revolutions]] in several key ways, including in how bourgeois revolutions assume control of more-or-less ready-made [[state]] machinery, bourgeois revolutions being concluded at the seizure of power rather than it being just the ''beginning'' in the case of their socialist counterparts, bourgeois revolutions merely replacing one group of exploiters with another, and other divergences.<ref>Joseph Stalin (1926). [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1926/01/25.htm ''Concerning Questions of Leninism''], IV. "THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT". Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.</ref>

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	* [[Decline of feudalism]]		* [[Decline of feudalism]]

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	<blockquote>"The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.<br><br>		<blockquote>"The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.<br><br>

	The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation." —[[Karl Marx]] and [[~~Frederich~~ Engels]], ''[[Manifesto of the Communist Party]]'', Ch. I, "Bourgeois and Proletarians"</blockquote>		The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation." —[[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], ''[[Manifesto of the Communist Party]]'', Ch. I, "Bourgeois and Proletarians"</blockquote>

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[[File:Anonymous - Prise de la Bastille.jpg|right|thumb|Storming of the Bastille, an opening event of the [[French Revolution]], commonly cited as an example of a bourgeois revolution.]]
A '''bourgeois revolution''', or '''bourgeois democratic revolution''', is a term used by [[Marxism|Marxists]] to denote a [[social revolution]] carried out by the [[bourgeoisie]] to overthrow the [[feudalism|feudal]] mode of production and realize the [[dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]] and [[capitalism]].

<blockquote>"The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.<br><br>

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation." —[[Karl Marx]] and [[Frederich Engels]], ''[[Manifesto of the Communist Party]]'', Ch. I, "Bourgeois and Proletarians"</blockquote>

==See also==
* [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie]]
* [[Decline of feudalism]]

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