Who were /our guys/ in the French Revolution?
Who were /our guys/ in the French Revolution?
Asher Gutierrez
Jaxson Ross
no one,
close thing was the paris commune but that was years later
Jayden Perez
Gracchus Babeuf
Gabriel Barnes
Les Enrages
Brayden Sullivan
The abstentionism is strong in this one
Jaxson Garcia
the jacobins?
Ryder Williams
George was /ourguy/, if he was still around he'd be making trap threads 5 times a day.
Nathan Jones
The sans-culottes because maximal proletarian character of their movement.
Aiden Ward
All of them. Liberals are proto leftist.
Camden Butler
Wasn't he super corrupt or something?
Andrew Evans
Sans-culottes were not proletarian.
Christian Gomez
Eli Davis
*Classical liberals
today's liberals are reactionary
Connor Parker
...
Nolan Lopez
Most of them were alright tbh, capitalism was fine when replacing mercantilism and they pulled no punches while rekting the monarchy.
Elijah Bennett
This absolutely based man.
"The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last."
James Parker
This trio of absolute madmen
Caleb Thompson
def this my man
Dylan Russell
I'm using the opportunity of this thread to shill for the Revolutions-podcast. Listen to it and learn something. Link bellow links to first episodes on the French Revolution.
revolutionspodcast.com
Mike Duncan is a global treasure.
IT'S THE BEST THING SINCE THE GUILLOTINE
Adrian Ortiz
Which are the best books to read about Robespierre and the revolution?
Dylan Ortiz
You mean the guy who literally sold out the revolution to the brits?
Kevin Richardson
Can you get into more detail? I know fuck all about what Danton did, I only heard he was very corrupt.
Owen Sanchez
Ruth Scurr's Fatal Purity
Zachary Perry
Really? I thought that was just your average liberal biography…
I recommend A Revolutionary Life by Peter McPhee. And, obviously, Virtue and Terror by Zizek.
Easton Sanchez
The sensibilities are definitely not with Robespierre, but it's not just a generic biography repeating the same stereotypes and making use of the same historiography as before, and IMO just undoing the popular image of Robespierre as a puritan tyrant autistically sending people to the guillotine is enough.
(it's also the only biography of him I've ever read so I just lack better recommendations)
Luis Ross
lmao Saint-Just's face is longer than a borzoi's snoot
Bentley Jenkins
Cordeliers
Caleb Bell
Starting to notice I know none of the details of this revolution. Is it important to know details? Is it fun and interesting like the Russian revolution?
Is there some good book one could read?
Andrew Hernandez
My dude, they publicly cut monarchs heads off. Sounds like my kind of party tbh. The only fitting end to a person who would call themselves a diety.
Ian Lewis
basically the "so much for the tolerant left" of the 18th century
Carson Jenkins
then who is to tell me that I can't enslave those women?
Joseph Morris
that shit never even happened my dude
Carson Cook
good meme though
Liam Nguyen
the one and only
Jeremiah Turner
...
Liam Perry
It's not as fun to read as the Russian Revolution because with the Russians you can understand their goals and purposes. With the French, the violence and the conflicts often seems arbitrary (I must have read books that covered the Danton-Robespierre conflict many times and I still can't confidently tell you what it was about) and the political ideas driving it are not as self-evident to 21st century people as socialism vs. capitalism, war vs. peace, etc.
But it's cool, particularly the Committee of Public Safety period. But that's only a bit over a year in a revolution the lasted a decade.