Comment on Liberalism as a revolutionary idea. [150 words]
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 Liberalism born in crisis of feudalism → not reform but replacement of political foundations
Route 2 Liberal ideas entered history as challenge to entire inherited order — birth, status, divine right
Feudalism + absolutism as target → Locke: natural rights, consent, limited government → individual replaces king as unit of politics → Glorious Revolution, American Revolution, French Revolution as proof → economic transformation: free market breaks feudal restrictions → political transformation: constitutionalism, civil rights, representation replace monarchy
Marx: liberalism revolutionary only in dismantling feudalism; once capitalism secured, it turned into ideology defending new privilege
Route 1 Revolutionary at origin, conservative in maturity — ideas outlasted the impulse
Route 2 Its lasting contribution: it made individual rights the permanent grammar of modern politics
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
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The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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