“Bourgeois triumph thus imbued the French Revolution with the agnostic or secular-moral ideology of the eighteenth century enlightenment, and since the idiom of that revolution became the general language of all subsequent social revolutionary movements, it transmitted this secularism…”

Source: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 12, Ideology: Religion

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British academic historian and Marxist historiographer 1917–2012

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