they had little or nothing in common with the other groups. Each group played its part on the "stage" until, following chaos and threatening social disintegration, there appeared the "man on horseback," Napoleon Bonaparte, who at the psychologically right moment consolidated the revolution, definitely establishing the capitalist Political State which was to prevail henceforth, all surface changes notwithstanding.
For further reading the following books are recommended:
"The French Revolution," by Bax.
“"Crises in European History," by Bang.
"The Sword of Honor," by Sue.
Few other books on the French Revolution are worth the attention of the busy working class reader, though the more studious will find Carlyle’s dithyrambic work interesting and stimulating, and Krapotkin’s "The Great Revolution" profitable despite its somewhat anarchistic bias.
August 26, 1926.
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