The misuse of the word "revolution" when people talk about the "American Revolution" has done a great disservice to overall understanding of the term. (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Revolution is not when you exchange one group of landlords for a different set. It is a total upending of systems. That is the true meaning. Soc dems and reformists think we can just change the window dressing and call it systemic. "If the new lord is better than the old lord we can return to the happiness of feudalism." What a terrible thing to believe.

We must reclaim this term. These terms belong to the people not a bunch of centuries dead slaveholding jackasses in powdered wigs who didn't change a goddamn thing.

Just something I've been thinking about lately.

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[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

I mean the US starting out as a colony and becoming independent and turning into the largest colonial power itself certainly isn't the natural way of history, as it certainly hasn't happened anywhere else.

Now if you really want to talk about an inflationary and wrong use of the term look at the "peaceful revolution" in east germany, which literally only happened the way it did because some failson bullshitted his way through a press conference and mistakenly told the press that travel restrictions had been lifted immediately.