1. July 4 celebrates the Declaration of Independence in the United States. For Marxists and Communists, the Declaration was
 

b. a moment in history declaring and advancing a bourgeois (capitalist) democratic and anti-colonial revolution

2. July 14 celebrates the fall of the Bastille in France. For Marxists and Communists this represents
 

c. the beginning of a bourgeois (capitalist) political revolution against an absolutist monarchy and a feudal aristocratic landlord class

3. July 26 is celebrated in Cuba as the anniversary of
 

d. The failed 1953 uprising against the Batista dictatorship which was a harbinger of the later successful Cuban revolution

4. Those who see revolutions in terms of straight-line victories should remember the month of July also saw
 

a. the defeat in 1917 revolutionary Russia of the first Bolshevik-led uprising against the provisional government

5. Tom Paine’s writings were an influential force in both the American and French revolutions. In these writings, Paine
 

a. challenged the religious and secular rationales for monarchy and aristocracy
b. defined as universal rights what ruling classes then called privileges and today call “entitlements.”
c. defended the revolutions from external and internal enemies while opposing slavery in the U.S., the terror in France, and other destructive institutions and practices of revolutionary states and societies.
d. all of the above

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