Revolutionary Economics
Norman Hampson, 20 August 1981
The French Revolution and the Poor
by Alan Forrest.
Blackwell, 198 pp., £12.50, May 1981,0 631 10371 6 Show More
by Alan Forrest.
Blackwell, 198 pp., £12.50, May 1981,
“... It is generally assumed that social revolutions must be good for the poor. To suggest the contrary is to appear wilfully paradoxical. After all, revolutionaries assert, and most of them probably believe, that their new order will be especially favourable to those who are least able to look after themselves. Their intentions may be benevolent enough, but the effects of their policies on the lives of ordinary people are another matter ... ”