[wideawake]

Actually there are quite a few factors that made the French Revolution different. For one, the colonists were separating from the mother country, while the revolutionaries were overthrowing their government.

[betty boop]

Actually there are quite a few factors that made the French Revolution different. For one, the colonists were separating from the mother country, while the revolutionaries were overthrowing their government.

Thank you so much for the insight. Of course you're right about this, wideawake!

[JimSEA]

You have a major point there. If you look at 19th and 20th century revolutions, those where people overthrew their on government (and historical culture) seldom ended well. Russia, Mexico, China and so many more. Too many were co-opted by Marxists or Fascists.

[FrdmLvr]

The roots of Marxism/Communism were in the ideology of the French Revolution, specifically Robspierre's Reign of Terror where war was waged on the people and on civilization by the government (established after the death of the King and the royalty) to reduce the population. They began arresting the clergy, too.

There is no comparison between the American Revolution and the French Revolution. It angers me that children are taught the American and French Revolutions were ideologically parallell.