In mike duncan's season on 1848, he talks a bit about how the largely liberal provisional government in france did multiple things to undermine the few socialists who were basically only let in in the first place because they were that popular. One thing they did was they basically assigned all of the socialists to this thing called the "luxembourg commission" where the they would come up with proposals on how to fix problems that the liberals could then disregard. Another was that they created the national workshop meant to guarantee the right to work and instead of putting one of the socialists in charge they put in a massive reactionary who was opposed to its very existence, and then when it failed intentionally, "oh well we tried guess it didn't work."
In mike duncan's season on 1848, he talks a bit about how the largely liberal provisional government in france did multiple things to undermine the few socialists who were basically only let in in the first place because they were that popular. One thing they did was they basically assigned all of the socialists to this thing called the "luxembourg commission" where the they would come up with proposals on how to fix problems that the liberals could then disregard. Another was that they created the national workshop meant to guarantee the right to work and instead of putting one of the socialists in charge they put in a massive reactionary who was opposed to its very existence, and then when it failed intentionally, "oh well we tried guess it didn't work."
I think in many ways things have not changed.
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