On this day in 1848, the French February Revolution began when thousands of Parisians took to the streets to protest political suppression, leading to the founding of the Second Republic and establishment of labor reforms. Among the reforms the Second Republic passed were universal male suffrage and a guaranteed "right to work", provided by National Workshops which gave the unemployed with a source of income.

The protests of February 22nd were triggered by the banning of political banquets, legal means of criticizing the government and fundraising for political organizing. Incidentally, communist journalist Friedrich Engels was in Paris at the time and witnessed these banquets. After the ban, thousands flooded out onto the streets to protest against the "Citizen King" Louis Philippe and his chief minister François Pierre Guillaume Guizot.

Shouting "Down with Guizot" and "Long Live the Reform", the crowds marched past Guizot's residence and erected barricades in the streets of Paris, where fighting broke out between the citizens and the Parisian municipal guards. French troops shot into the crowd, killing at least fifty-two people.

In the next few days, Guizot resigned and King Philippe fled the country. By February 26th, the Second Republic had been formed, with poet Alphonse de Lamartine acting as a de facto dictator over France for the next three months.

The Second Republic's governance would be tested in the "June Days" uprising, which Karl Marx identified as a conflict between petite bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The revolting workers were crushed by force (with over 4,000 insurgents being deported to Algeria) and the Second Republic continued until elected President Louis Napoléon Bonaparte dissolved the parliament in a coup in 1851.

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  • scraeming [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I'm not a person of faith, but I was raised Catholic, and watching these tradcath adult converts on Twitter cheerleading a priest breaking the seal of confession to rat out a cheating wife is just incredible. "He lost his priesthood but God will forgive him", no, that's not how that shit works lmfao. The priest committed a mortal sin and is automatically excommunicated from the church. If you had any convictions in your faith, every day this priest continues to give and receive sacraments or hold service should be a literal heresy of the highest order to you.

    "American Catholics are just protestants" continues to be 100% correct.

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      holy shit
      that priest is fucked

      The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a penitent in words or in any manner and for any reason.
      -Can. 983 §1

      • scraeming [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I'm pretty sure the only reason a priest can speak of what is said in a confessional (and even this varies by who you ask) is if the penitent states clear, unambiguous intent to commit a crime against another person in the future and shows no desire to stop themselves, like telling your priest "I'm gonna kill my wife tonight". Something about a person refusing to avoid knowingly committing a sin in the future meaning they're not asking forgiveness, so the priest's hands aren't tied in that situation.