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Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx both believed that revolutions were inevitable. However, the two did not agree on all aspects of revolution. De Tocqueville found that revolutions couldn’t be deterred, but also found that no laws in history determined revolutions. On the other hand, Marx used a logical framework to claim that revolutions were acts of history. The focus of de Tocqueville’s study on revolutions was the French Revolution. In his book …

…is a link between revolution and the formation of a modern state. The oppressed, those unhappy with the current situation, will be in favor of progression; while those reaping the benefits of the time will be in favor of stagnation. People in general are not apt to change. In order to become more modern states must go through change, which often results in a violent uprising, as has been noted through the course of history.