Absolutely fair take! I think Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety staying in power until the peace may have been the optimal outcome of the revolution (it's impossible to say for sure without a time machine). Some of the last people he purged were the overzealous executioners - those who endangered the revolution through their sadism/bloodthirst.
My point is that the image of the guillotine as the chief tool of the revolution is right-wing propaganda that even the left has internalized. The real blows to the French ruling class were property confiscations, democratic reforms, a sense of empowerment by the sans-culotte, the peasants, the radical intellectuals. The guillotine is a good symbol, it strikes fear in the right people, but its real history is mixed.
Choppyboy memes are speculative militancy. This article is well worth reading to understand why all lib media has taken away our ability to joke about guillotines and the like:
Absolutely fair take! I think Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety staying in power until the peace may have been the optimal outcome of the revolution (it's impossible to say for sure without a time machine). Some of the last people he purged were the overzealous executioners - those who endangered the revolution through their sadism/bloodthirst.
My point is that the image of the guillotine as the chief tool of the revolution is right-wing propaganda that even the left has internalized. The real blows to the French ruling class were property confiscations, democratic reforms, a sense of empowerment by the sans-culotte, the peasants, the radical intellectuals. The guillotine is a good symbol, it strikes fear in the right people, but its real history is mixed.
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Choppyboy memes are speculative militancy. This article is well worth reading to understand why all lib media has taken away our ability to joke about guillotines and the like:
https://roarmag.org/essays/chop-chop-the-liberatory-militancy-of-guillotine-memes/