Peasant wages > wagey bucks.
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The French Revolution, on the other hand, was one of the first successful communist revolutions in history. French revolutionaries completely overthrew *everything* that existed simply *because* it existed.
The metric system was created to divorce the people from the historic imperial measurements and conversions they had used for centuries. Base 12 (bottom-up, humanistic divisions arrived at through independent reconstruction) gave way to base 10 (top-down impositional divisions mandated by authority). The French operated on “decimal time” for six years. That is, instead of the 24/60/60 timeframe, it was 10/100/100. 10 hours in a day, 100 “decimal minutes” in an hour, 100 “moments” in a decimal minute. You can download a decimal clock for your computer (or go to a website for it) to see how time ticks differently under it.
The aristocracy was overthrown (often murdering them), but so was the church. In addition to many clergy being killed, the ‘Cult of Reason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason) and the Cult of the Supreme Being](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being) existed to expel Christianity from France by creating a new false dichotomy over which the people were meant to fight (forced to abandon Christendom either way).
From the French Revolution, we establish the first modern use of the term ‘comrade’ to refer to men, women, white, black, slave, free (though slaves were freed), and regardless of social status. Where the American Revolution explicitly recognized and protected the innate social hierarchy of man (Jefferson’s “natural aristoi,” which he contrasted with a monarchically-imposed aristocracy that forbade social movement), which allowed anyone to move up in society regardless of birth, the French forbade anyone from “moving up” as being “decadent and monarchical.”
It truly was a nightmare, and they got away with poisoning republicanism by claiming their revolution was the same as ours, under that name.
It was a capitalistic and anti feudalist, but very internationalist revolution. They wanted to reduce all the limits set by the french monarchy on trade and make France into a dutch-style market economy.
The social aspects of the French revolution were a bigger inspiration to Marx than anything economic about it, which is why marxism is a very social ideology but heterodox socialism, and also heterodox communism, usually are not. Both of the heterodox movements would birth the third position, and the orthodox ones would create bolshevism. Although they had some cross contamination with each other (the ussr's organization of society into "soviets" was heterodox and was mirrored in fascist corporatism. For instance. Mussolini's theory of class dynamics was ultimately marxist as another for instance)