• RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      How is it that a country that has a history of being so based (Revolution, Paris Commune, First International, etc) also end up as chud as the Angl*sphere? Boggles the mind.

      • lutteurdeclasse2 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I would say they had a lot of potential post WW2 , the communist party won at it's peak but American influence prevailed

        • triangle [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Mai 68 could've gone a very based direction, that was probably the last real revolutionary moment.

      • gammison [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        It's easy, just remember the other side they were fighting lol. The communards called the third republic an empire without an emperor (or Bonapartist without a Bonaparte) for a reason.

        • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Right. Just like the birth country of Marx and Engels produced the Nazis, or the October Revolution produced the Whites. Hell, even America had Eugene Debs and the Wobblies.

          I suppose France just wasn't as good at curtailing revolutionary movements as much as Germany and the US did.

  • TheCaconym [any]
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    3 years ago

    That fuckhead has been the face of French imperialism in Africa for decades now; you've got songs from 20 years ago (like this one, Pompafric) referencing it.

    Which reminds me I wanted to make a thread in /c/languagelearning translating a few of Tryo's songs as some of them are pretty good (the one above is about France fucking up Africa; there's also one about Palestine, for example).