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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android | Last edited at 6:57PM on 3/15/2013

Was the French Revolution pretty much a failure in the end?

I know the history...I'm just wondering if there were actually any lasting gains made from it?

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Connor41: 3 months ago via Android | Last edited at 7:07PM on 3/15/2013

No,they crushed the **** out of the monarchy and the priesthood. Now, they didn't achieve all their goals -- the radical left-wing was completely unwilling to compromise with the monarchist conservatives and were a shade too overzealous in purging suspected monarchy supporters from their government (Maximillian Robespierre, the Reign of Terror, guillotines) as well as the blatant corruption in the governments that they actually managed to set up (Directoire, anyone?), but I wouldn't say that they completely failed. Napoleon's main contribution was the fact that he basically made himself a King (well, an Emperor) and got rid of a lot of the republican ideologies that the revolutionaries had created (not all of them, however)

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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android

Sending someone to the guillotine looks fun.

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Connor41: 3 months ago via Android

I bet it is.

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shinypate1: 3 months ago via iPhone

Perceptive comments. Star

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preppyboy: 3 months ago

It wasn't "pretty much a failure", it was one of the largest mistakes made by any country or people in history, and it gave birth to one of the largest destructions of innocent life in history as well.

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MsStina: 3 months ago via iPhone

I'd say what happened with Stalin & Hitler was much worse than the French Revolution.

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preppyboy: 3 months ago

i agree with you on this, but i believe the french revolution is running in third, and with stalin running second to hitler. However, i am not going to look at it with a mind o relativism, the French Revolution was absolutely filled with atrocity, no matter what angle you look at it from.

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MsStina: 3 months ago via iPhone

It sort of 'sparked' other revolutions to occur. Like dominos.

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shinypate1: 3 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 6:09AM on 3/16/2013

Compared to the revolution of 1776 in America, the French Revolution was bloodier, more destructive and had less lasting results on history. However, it was successful in killing off the royalty and many bureaucratic and other relative innocents.
The record of revolutions is not good. They rarely produce a noble and just society; this is often the case where the intellectual core is areligious. Corruption abounded in the French Revolution, as it did in the Arab Spring and other revolutions, where the common desire for a just and peaceful society is hijacked by a committed cadre of organized and funded socialist/Islamist/communist leaders. To discover one way to win at revolution, and still remain capitalist, read this: http://www.cesj.org/about/4prongstrategy/howtowinarevolution.html
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I do not endorse this, merely offer it for discussion when the majority of revolutionary how-tos are dominated by communists.

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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android

Thanks

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