• Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    6 days ago

    Read up on the French Revolution. Is widely praised for catapulting liberal ideas and democracy, but it went with class warfare and partisanism leading to the decapitation and murder of many om both sides, military dictatorship et cetera

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      5 days ago

      Yeah, the end result of that was Napoleon. Not great.