Editing English Revolution (section)

=== Criticism ===
The idea, while popular among Marxist historians, has been criticised by many historians of more liberal schools,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/civilwar/overview/great-rebellion/ |title=Great rebellion, English Revolution or War of Religion? |website=[[UK Parliament]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613142138/https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/civilwar/overview/great-rebellion/ |archive-date=13 June 2021}}</ref> and of revisionist schools.<ref>{{cite book |first=Lawrence |last=Stone |author-link=Lawrence Stone |title=The Causes of the English Revolution 1529–1642 |chapter=Foreword (by [[Clare Jackson]]) |publisher=[[Routledge]] |pages=xiv–xv |isbn=978-1-315-18492-0 |date=2017 |orig-date=1972 |edition=Routledge Classics}}</ref>

The notion that the events of 1640 to 1660 constitute an English Revolution has been criticized by historians such as [[Austin Woolrych]], who pointed out that

{{quote|painstaking research in the county after county, in local record offices, and family archives, has revealed that the changes in the ownership of the real estate, and hence in the composition of the governing class, were nothing like as great as used to be thought.<ref>{{cite book |first=Austin |last=Woolrych |author-link=Austin Woolrych |date=2002 |title=Britain in Revolution, 1625–1660 |location=Oxford |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=794}}</ref>}}

Woolrych argues that the notion that the period constitutes an "English Revolution" not only ignores the lack of significant social change contained within the period but also ignores the long-term trends of the early modern period which extend beyond this narrow time frame. 

Neither [[Karl Marx]] nor [[Friedrich Engels]] ever ignored the further development of the bourgeois state beyond that point, however, as is clear from their writings on the [[Industrial Revolution]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/england/condition-workers.htm |title=Marx and Engels: On the Industrial Revolution: Primitive Accumulation and The Condition of the Working Class |website=[[Marxists Internet Archive]] |last1=Marx |first1=Karl |author1-link=Karl Marx |last2=Engels |first2=Friedrich |author2-link=Friedrich Engels}}</ref>