"What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?"
"David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first?"
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #DavidRunciman #AyseZarakol #FrenchRevolution #China
🇫🇷#France #FrenchRevolution #FrenchAristocracy #Aristocracy #Science #Physics #Chemistry #Helium #Noble #NobleGas #NobleGases #Gas #Gases #Atom #NuclearExplosion #SplitTheAtom.
#oligarchs are good-for-nothing-but-enriching-themselves shit-faced assholes, whom we #democracy lovers must defeat (because they are enemies of the #USConstitution and therefore also every #citizen) as soon as possible because we have no time to waste
YES, OLIGARCHS ARE THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
let's heed what #FrenchRevolution teaches us lovers of #history
. they rose up, kicked ass, and took the heads of the few super rich who thought they were untouchable
. they were indeed TOUCHABLE
France has its Zorro, and his name is "la Tulipe Noire (et son cheval Voltaire)" https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/038439-000-A/la-tulipe-noire/ #60th #movie #alaindelon #frenchrevolution #revolution #cinemastodon #cinema
Earth’s Great Happenings: The French Revolution (1789–1799)
A time of radical change, violence, and uncertainty.
The French Revolution was one of the most chaotic periods in history. It reshaped France, toppled a monarchy, and sent shockwaves around the world.
It was about grand ideals. It was also brutal, bloody, and filled with terror.
#frenchrevolution @clnichols #revolution #medium #substack #writingcommunity #writing
People had a common sense of place:
* mountain people are known for their steadfastness;
* in Paris, the moderates and the centrists were busy only in the plain at the time. (On the right bank of the river Seine.)
This opposition was familiar to revolutionaries from a classic text, the ‘Life of Solon’, in which Plutarch describes the political divisions in Athens in these terms: ‘The inhabitants of the mountains strongly supported democracy, those of the plains oligarchy; the inhabitants of the coast formed a third party, in favour of an intermediate form of government…’
(For other readers: i am stressing that ‘democracy’ here means the assembly of the citizens, not a parliament of representatives.)
Left-wing men could be proud of belonging to the mountain as a metaphor of the most difficult policy… if we follow historians Marc Belissa and Yannick Bosc (fr) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX03HWtOEa4
#QuartierLatin #RévolutionFrançaise #democracy #parliament #politics #Paris #FrenchRevolution #France
The real reason the little orange man got scared and backed away.
Long term US bonds were being sold off! The US was being told it is no longer a safe place to invest
On the road to bankruptcy
Why US Treasuries Sell-Off Is Nightmare Scenario for the Economy - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/treasuries-sell-off-nightmare-scenario-economy-tariffs-2057368
@DemocracyMattersALot in the middle of market collapse and potentially during a recession.
This is truly entering the “let them eat cake “ phase. #frenchrevolution
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ What a Merry-Go-Round ✧
What a Merry-Go-Round is the eighteenth collection by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, made for the Autumn/Winter 2001 season of his eponymous fashion house. The collection drew on imagery of clowns and carnivals, inspired by McQueen's feelings about childhood and his experiences in the fashion industry. The designs were ...
#FrenchRevolution #McQueen #Nosferatu #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Merry-Go-Round
#Leon_Trotsky was highly critical of the #Stalinist_USSR for suppressing #Democracy and the lack of adequate coherent #EconomicPlanning. :skp904:
In Results and Prospects, written in 1906, #Trotsky outlines his theory in detail, arguing: "History does not repeat itself. However much one may compare the #RussianRevolution with the Great French Revolution, the former can never be transformed into a repetition of the latter."
In the #FrenchRevolution of 1789, France experienced what Marxists called a "bourgeois-democratic revolution"—a regime was established wherein the bourgeoisie overthrew the existing French feudalistic system. The bourgeoisie then moved towards establishing a regime of #DemocraticParliamentaryInstitutions.
However, while democratic rights were extended to the bourgeoisie, they were not generally extended to a universal franchise. The freedom for workers to organize unions or to strike was not achieved without considerable struggle.
Trotsky argues that because a majority of the branches of industry in Russia originated under the direct influence of government measures—sometimes with the help of government subsidies—the capitalist class was again tied to the ruling elite. The capitalist class was subservient to European capital.
*** 21st century - What has changed is the capitalist class has divided, unequally, creating Hyper-Capitalism. Hyper-Capitalists (#Billionaires and #Trillionaires) influence elections (Mass Media and Campaign Fund Raising), so that the political class become subservient to them. In time, they become directively and publically involved in government. #HyperCaptitalists #HyperCapitalism
#Musk #TrumpRegime #TrumpCoup #Trump
@SueInRockville so #gop when do you wake up? The US people are hurting and the support systems are failing due to #presidentmusk
execution of louis xvi
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da https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e746266c-96eb-4109-bf82-3711f87767cd/
“Execution of Louis XVI on Monday the January 1793 at twenty minutes past ten in the morning at the Place of the Revolution (Concorde)” (Cornell University / digital collections)
#1793 #FrenchRevolution #Ghigliottina #leRoi #LouisXVI #LuigiXVI #PlaceDeLaConcorde #PlaceOfTheRevolution #RivoluzioneFrancese #theKing
Alright, after talking with someone tonight, I am truly an uneducated moron when it comes to French history. I've ordered four books on Napoleon and two more on the French Revolution, adding to the three I have now. Hopefully that should do the trick.
I'm truly ashamed that it's taken me this long to learn all this important historical knowledge (the American educational system, natch). But given the present moment, I feel an obligation to know.
https://gofund.me/ada59b01 I am raising funds to restore this historic 1710 Dutch windmill, a beautiful piece of heritage that has stood for over 300 years.
To put its age into perspective...the mill already stood tall when the USA was founded, has 'seen' the #frenchrevolution in Europe, was already spinning it sails during China's #qingdynasty and was full on milling flour when the Western world connected with Australia for the first time. Now it needs a helping hand. Yours? Txs a mill-ion ;-)
@LaNaehForaday
Who steps forward and stops the mad king!
#gop have no spine or Russian blackmail is too strong!
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Anyone with experience knows that actually reviewing & understanding people’s jobs & the work being done takes time. Then understanding the implications of firing the worker & having the work stop.
DOGE using key words and youthful ignorance, they fire & don’t care. The emotional, physical dam is huge. The US will suffer for years if not decades from this broken trust. sorry for #trump’s victims. this only builds resentment & hate.
#frenchrevolution
It seems to me that America could use a Pere Duchene fellow right about now. (Yes. My French Revolution studies continue! I should have filled in these egregious knowledge gaps years ago!)
