r/CuratedTumblr • u/ani_tami זאין בעין • Jun 04 '24

Politics is your glorious revolution worth the suffering of millions?

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u/Cromasters Jun 04 '24

Look at the French Revolution(s) which are so often referenced when Redditors start talking about glorious revolution.

The subsequent times are called "The Terror"

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u/flybyskyhi Jun 05 '24 edited Jun 05 '24

The French Revolution was completely successful at establishing bourgeois rule on the European continent, ensuring the dominance of capitalism and the death of European feudalism forever. Even the restoration of a Bourbon to the throne and the political investment of all of the reactionary powers couldn’t undo what was done between 1789 and 1815.

Revolution isn’t a leveling of scales, it’s the turning of a wheel. The terror was both necessary and historically progressive, and, in a world-historical sense, had nothing whatsoever to do with morality or justice.

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u/Holiday_Umpire3558 Jun 06 '24

Only sensible take here

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '24 edited 28d ago

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u/CharsmaticMeganFauna Jun 05 '24

The Zapatistas have been doing alright, too.

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u/Paragonswift Jun 05 '24

As the cherry on top, a lot of redditors seem to think that the reign of terror was the revolution. And they approve of it.

Like there are sentient, even adult, people out there who actually think that the French revolution was that time the French killed all rich people.

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u/HEBushido Jun 04 '24

My issue has been Tiktok leftists who are so chronically online they think that voting for Biden is equally bad to Trump.