ABSTRACT
This chapter continues with the rise of post–French Revolutionary “isms” but concentrates only on the rise of one, Marxism. In doing so it shifts the understanding of revolution by showing that Marxism was not the product of a single political event, the French Revolution, but emerged, in addition, from two profound economic changes, the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. It discusses, among others, Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872), Charles Fourier (1772–1837), Robert Owen (1771–1858), Henri Duc de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), and Karl Marx (1818–1883).
