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... the French Revolution which resulted from the differing contexts of the historians. Cobban's agenda was not simply to attack Lefebvre's interpretation, but rather various Marxist interpretations. I also realized that despite the fact that Lefebvre was a Marxist, it is insufficient to conclude that he represents the definitive version of Marxism to the French Revolution. Therefore, in analyzing the debate between Revisionism and Marxism would be deducing the particular to the general. Consequently, the focus of the essay shifted slightly to that of the exploration of the underlying factors that form the Marxist interpretation of Lefebvre and the Revisionist approach of Cobban, excluding the notion of 'debate'. Nevertheless, this exploration involved much of the disagreement over whether the revolution was bourgeois, as this was fundamental to the disparity between Lefebvre's Marxism and Cobban's Revisionism. However, as deduced, it is insufficient to characterize the two opinions as a debate and therefore, ...
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