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It has been a while but yes I have read "Brave New World," I even tried to wade through "Das Kapital" while I was in High School. Ford like Marx saw workers as a resource that should be manipulated for maximum productivity. Marx never pretended that he would make the workers better off. He thought it was a misallocation of resources for men like Ford to be so rich and that Society would be better if the wealth was spent elsewhere.

Politicians are also at fault, they want to help and the only tool they have is Government. Every problem is contorted to where it sort of fits the tool available.

One scholar I read called it the "Parisian Revolution" since it all took place in Paris with only some hired goons brought in from the outside. Maybe you can refresh my memory of Danton's role?

Um, Danton was the philosopher who wrote about what sort of society he envisioned prior to the revolution beginning. I believe he played some role in the early government but had his neck separated by Robspierre.

History is written through the socialist lens. I got a great education reading some books about the Spanish Revolution from the perspective of the Spanish. Franco was not the villain we have made him into. And those Americans who fought against him fought for the Communists - in fact took indirect orders from the Commintern.