The French Revolution and the Temporality of the Collective Subject between Siey\ue8s and Marx

I shall examine the \u2018stakes\u2019of the French Revolution from two perspectives: that of Siey\ue8s and that of Marx. The former, Siey\ue8s, an influential theoretician of the Revolution, \u2018ideologist\u2019 of the Third Estate, played a crucial role in the initial years of the Revolution; the latter, in many ways, adopted the French Revolution \u2013 the Revolution par excellence, the mother of all revolutions \u2013 as a model for the communist revolution. But the comparison between the two thinkers focuses on the question of political temporality. This comparison aims to underline the clear difference, from a temporal perspective, between the collective subject of Siey\ue8s and that of Marx, using the common reference to the French Revolution as a starting point