href="http://www.encuentro.gov.ar/sitios/encuentro/programas/ver?rec_id=50216">Encuentro n/d Filosofía y Praxis YouTube 02/05/2013:
French Revolution made by the masses led by the bourgeoisie, the capitalist class. Liberty, eqaulity, fraternity.
As Feinmann explains, the Revolucion de Mayo was not made by the masses in anything like the same sense. Not a "popular revolution". It was a revolution made by a small group who took advantage of the strange situation presented by the unusual conditions of the French control of Spain under Napoleon.
He stresses the extent to which Enlightenment thought shaped that of Mariano Moreno. Moreno was a Jacobin in his philosophical orientation, but without the sanguinary implications that label carries in its French context.
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