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JennyStokes's avatar

To say that the French Revolution got France nowhere is completely ridiculous. Read history.

I am NOT American...arrange it yourself!

I wish you good luck.

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Patricia's avatar

Unfortunately (?);

It took France over a century to get past that bloody guillotine Reign of Terror and doomed European empires to contract into despotic industrial capitalism: setting the stage for mass death on an industrial scale , now known as WWI. Meanwhile France surges into a socialist industrial and cultural mainstay ; still struggling with massive economic uncertainty. That left them open to the influence of fascism that would dawn with word wide Depression and blossom into Hitlerite Fascism and The German National Party (aka: Nazi). Yes, the ideals of The Revolution would help them resist the massive collaboration with the Nazi regime:

but without the intervention of the Americas and The British (?): they would have fallen easily.

Since the rescue of 1945(?), they recovered like most of Europe. Today another uncertain world wide hegemony threatens that stability as Neo Nazi movements are spreading through the NATO countries: foreshadowing another fascist takeover:

Unless those who see this happening clearly start to a lot more than pontificate about it and fight back with all factions and tools at their disposal.

Getting too comfortable with “prosperity” can be and is fatal.

Time to create a new economy and hegemony: It must start NOW.

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