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[+] -8 points 9 months ago (6 children)

No, they didn't. The French Revolution was a cluster fuck and ultimately failed miserably.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Considering most monarchies are no more in Europe, it didn't really fail miserably

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Do you have any grasp of history?

    It resulted in a dictatorship and then a return of the monarchy.

    It DID NOT magically remove all monarchies in Europe, that is a ridiculous ahistorical claim. It didn't even ultimately remove the monarchy in fucking France.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago*

    It was the start, because even if Emperor's went back, installed by foreign powers, they were heavily checked by other institutions, and removed again and again by the citizens of france. It ended effectively the age of absolutism and started democratic movements.

    So yes, it was definitely important for democracies in Europe, a land entranced in absolutists kingdoms

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    How do you judge success or failure?

    How would you respond to the claim that at the very least it permanently rewired the concept of legitimate government based on ideas like nation, citizenship and rights, even if the outcomes of that rewiring were neither linear nor immediate? Creating institutional templates, accelerating modern politics and seeding democracies?

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