• Xx_Aru_xX [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    I don’t like when people glaze the French revolution “oh it got better that it was because it’s no longer a monarchy”, okay thanks for democratically committing genocides on us very cool

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      9 months ago

      I mean i assume as a Hexbear poster you know what historical materialism is and what Marxists mean by “historically progressive”?

      Like, we think The French Revolution was a historically necessary event. France (and Europe) needed to progress from feudalism to capitalism.

      That doesnt mean we think capitalist/imperialist France is good or what happened to whichever of those countries youre from was good. Just that history needs to progress so we can get to communism.

      I dont want to talk down here. Just be clear with whats intended and what Marxists mean by this. None of us think that liberal capitalist France is good.