French Revolution

French Revolution

Introduction

The French Revolution is one of the major achievement's all across the globe. Through such efforts demonstrated by human, social and political life does progress towards liberal democracy. Such a history could presumably contribute to human, social development by laying out a feasible path to a democratic future (Doyle, 2001).

Background of French Revolution

The French Revolution started from 1789 till the year 1799, was a retro of drastic social and governmental tumult in France playing a major influence on not only France but all across Europe. The outright monarchy that ruled France over centuries distorted in just a period of 3 years. The French civilization experienced an ambitious revolution as medieval, patrician and spiritual privileges vaporized underneath a continual attack from fundamental left-wing party-political assemblies, crowds on the roads, and labourers in the rural area. Old philosophies regarding tradition and pyramid of empire, higher classes and divine authority brusquely conquered the new Insight philosophies of equivalence, residency and indubitable rights (Hibbert, 1980).

Discussion

Here, in a nutshell, is a fundamental challenge to the end of history thesis that made Fukuyama famous at the end of the Cold War. Fukuyama's core argument is that the collapse of fascism and Communism as plausible ideological competitors to capitalist democracy has ended our deeper conflicts over the best form of government, leaving democracy as the world's "default" political option. China's model of authoritarian capitalism defies description, much less emulation. All that, says Fukuyama, leaves democracy as the world's only remaining governing model both widely admired and, at least in theory, replicable in a variety of social and economic circumstances. His larger goal is to lay out the complex social prerequisites for democracy, highlighting how nearly miraculous it was that these elements came together in proper balance to produce liberal democracy in the first place.

We take the very existence of state for granted, although the global proliferation of failed states has reminded us that democracy cannot succeed where a functioning state is weak or non-existent. Rule of law and accountable government, the more professed prerequisites of liberal democracy, are both difficult to achieve, and more difficult still to harmonize with a prosperous state, since their purpose is to restrain its power. By tracing the development of the modern state, then showing the millennia-long process through which rule of law and accountable government managed to moderate state power in a very few places, Fukuyama aims ...