Innocent people die in revolution or war, but generally, in cases like the French revolution, or us civil was, that overthrow a corrupt system for a (slightly) fairer one, society is better off over all. I don’t think we need violent revolution but we do need revolution.
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vividspecter@lemm.ee 4 months agoOr get out the guillotines which soon get turned on your allies (and innocent poor people), then after that collapses get taken over by a fascist dictator, who undoes most of the progressive changes you made and rampages across Europe, killing millions of people (including French people).
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 months ago
cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In fairness a fascist or at least authoritarian dictatorrampages across Europe every few hundred years give or take a century anyways
Cheers@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Why stop at Europe, no one is immune, they just have the most famous framework.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because they did it so much it spilled over onto several other continents and replicated?
orrk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
you think this is new or unique to Europe? downside of Eurocentric history education i guess.