Revolution, History, Leadership

Comparisons of Rousseau and Marx usually focus on topics such as Equality and Property.  Less examined is the bearing of the former on the latter's concept of History.  Now, even though Rousseau does not explicitly incite rebellion, his writings unarguably inspire the French Revolution.  Hence, they are a part of the history of the latter.  Likewise, explicitly provocative, Marx' writings are part of the history of Communism.  But, even as moments of an individual's arrival at a collective consciousness, they still precede similar awakenings in his readers. In other words, within that revolutionary Egalitarian movement is a temporal ordering between writer and audience, i. e. between Leader and Followers, from which Marx' concept of History abstracts.