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CommiunismI love it when “anti-capitalist” left glazes capitalist revolutions and their iconography (guillotines), as if toppling of aristocracy and replacing them by rule of capital hasn’t been the status quo for ~150 years at this point
The French revolution was not to install capitalism, it was for increased freedoms, republicanism, and liberal democracy. It was without a doubt a step in the right direction away from autocratic rule, that doesn’t mean it’s the end of the line journey for liberation hence why calls for continuing the class war are made. The guillotine is merely a symbol for that, besides everyone knows these days we advocate for the wood chipper.
No, it was a literal bourgeois revolution where, in an alliance with underclasses in a popular movement, the bourgeois class revolted against the upper classes of the time in an attempt to destroy feudal social relations and allow capitalism to grow more freely (which these relations harmed).
The liberal freedoms were also, in practice, freedoms for the propertied and the wealthy. This meant no more legal privileges or barriers between people if they wanted to start a business or something (as long as you have enough wealth to actually do it), weakening of the state power meaning that the powers that be can’t just suddenly change taxes, grant monopoly or confiscate property without due process, etc…
As I said, it was historically progressive but not anymore, and calling for guillotines is essentially calling for a replacement of capitalist rule by capitalist rule.
calling for guillotines is essentially calling for a replacement of capitalist rule by capitalist rule.
That is ridiculous.
Guillotines are a general calling for revolution against the ruling classes, it is not specifically calling the French revolution.
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