Who were /our guys/ in the French Revolution?

Who were /our guys/ in the French Revolution?

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no one,

close thing was the paris commune but that was years later

Gracchus Babeuf

Les Enrages

The abstentionism is strong in this one

the jacobins?

George was /ourguy/, if he was still around he'd be making trap threads 5 times a day.

The sans-culottes because maximal proletarian character of their movement.

All of them. Liberals are proto leftist.

Wasn't he super corrupt or something?

Sans-culottes were not proletarian.

this
marxists.org/history/france/revolution/roux/1793/enrages01.htm

*Classical liberals

today's liberals are reactionary

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Most of them were alright tbh, capitalism was fine when replacing mercantilism and they pulled no punches while rekting the monarchy.

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."

This trio of absolute madmen

def this my man

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Which are the best books to read about Robespierre and the revolution?

You mean the guy who literally sold out the revolution to the brits?

Can you get into more detail? I know fuck all about what Danton did, I only heard he was very corrupt.

Ruth Scurr's Fatal Purity

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.

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)

lmao Saint-Just's face is longer than a borzoi's snoot

Cordeliers

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?

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.

basically the "so much for the tolerant left" of the 18th century

then who is to tell me that I can't enslave those women?

that shit never even happened my dude

good meme though

the one and only

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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.