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Bourgeois Revolution

One type of social revolution, a democratic revolution led by the bourgeoisie, uniting the common masses to overthrow the feudal landlord class and conquer the political power, replace the feudal mode of production with the capitalist mode of production and aim at establishing the capitalist society and the state of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It has removed the obstacles to the development of capitalism primarily by opposing the feudal system and establishing the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It is an inevitable historical phenomenon in the transition of human society from feudalism to capitalism…

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