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I think the GP has it more correct; France wanted a democratic parliament with representation for all*. What they got instead was a socialist revolution led by a paranoid puritan.
England had already survived Oliver Cromwell (their version of Napoleon) and had an established parliament with representation for all* and strict controls on royal power.
Meanwhile, British forces were all out trying to keep the colonies under control; you could easily argue that the formation of the US is the British version of the French Revolution โ and then it happened again in other colonies, until England got sick of the liabilities and told the commonwealth to go manage itself.
Why does socialism seem so correlated or directly causitive to mass killings, I dont mean Denmark socialism, I mean like russian and the french kind at the time you're talking about.
I thoroughly support socialized medicine and collective access and all the "goodies" stuff about socialism, I'm just curious how theres was always at some point a leap from the good shit to dystopia.
Unfettered neoliberal Capitalism is no better but its a whole lot better at sweeping all the social murder under the rug and gaining political support every other 4 years the pendulum seems to incomprehensibly swing the far opposite direction...sigh
If you use violence to build a system, you end up with a system with violence built in it.
Soviet Union had the idea of "Proletariat's dictatorship", which is so far detached from the core reasons that are used to justify socialism, that to me it looks ridiculous that people ever thought it could work.
It could be that the mass killing take place because people are trying to use force to install the new system.