No, 1795 and its consequences do not reconnect with the principles of natural rights declared in 1789, and then in 1793, but illustrate the failure of the rights of man and the citizen and the triumph of the specific interest of the possessing classes, of the politics of money, of the despotism of economic powers. No, Napoleon Bonaparte was not an heir of the Enlightenment, nor of the revolution of the rights of man. Let us be clear, the possessing classes, conquerors in Europe and colonists outside Europe, carried through a counter-revolution. The revolution of the rights of man and the citizen was not a bourgeois revolution, but a revolution of natural humanist right which attempted to liberate humanity from the doctrined despotism of the churches, from the despotism of conquering economic power which was colonist and segregationist, from the despotism of sexual difference erected into a means of domination of one sex over the other.
History&Revolution: Refuting Revisionism
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