Since people here support dark woke, can we also admit that the French Revolution was based as fuck?
Posted by Extreme_Rocks
Since people here support dark woke, can we also admit that the French Revolution was based as fuck?
Posted by Extreme_Rocks
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No? No.
I mean it even showed the dangers of putting the weird far left populists in charge after the ousting of everyone else. Ending slavery was the only based thing Robespierre ever did.
Revolutions are usually based when they start but they are chaotic, morally ambiguous phenomena that nobody can control or guide.
Sometimes they are necessary though.
I feel British people and Americans are always much harder on the French revolution than we are commonly thinking about in Germany. Same for Napoleon.
They had some based ideas, but also a lot of cringe ideas that lead to the whole thing failing and Napoleon taking over (granted, Napoleon also had some based ideas, but he also legalized slavery to pay for the war against Britain, so…)
Mass killings in the Vendée was pretty bad
…it had some ups and downs.
What occured to me though, watching the Ken Burns American revolution documentary, is that the ugliness of the American revolution is played down a lot on the national mythology while the French revolution is flattened out to an unrecognizable lack of nuance, even by the people that hype it (the terror was absolutely not an ‘eat the rich’ purge…)
The committees of public safety formed in the early days of the American revolution had a lot of the same hyper paranoid cultural revolution energy as revolutionary france, they just didn’t end up running the entire colonial government. To say nothing of the absolutely horrific, appallingly cynical, and completely mercenary treatment of the Natives, and the Girondist levels of delusional crusading against Quebec, there two Revolutions do have some parallels that aren’t often drawn
Full support. Great ideas, but some really nasty things occurred during that time.
Unironically the French Revolutionaries were more liberal than the American Revolutionaries were
I don’t like this weird meme stuff where we glaze historical events or people
It was a net good and based, but we have to learn a lot from the dark side.