To this day I will never let go of my bitterness that people managed to turn Les Misérables into LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE of the novel's view of the revolution in question in Les Mis.https://twitter.com/loudpenitent/status/1321168901158309888 …
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Every revolution seems like a pointless bloody waste of life if it fails, but all of us are here in the world we live in today because of one or more revolutions that succeeded, and the difference between success and failure is often a self fulfilling prophecy
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Or doing the fucking work instead of just wanting to nobly die.
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I mean, yeah, though it is something that the most iconic musical about revolutionary fervor is about a failed revolution, and nobody seems to acknowledge it.
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It was certainly interesting when the Hong Kong protesters adopted "Can You Hear the People Sing?" as their theme song
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I think Hugo is analyzing his opinions here and doesn't actually come out unvarnished approval of the Revolution at ALL. He has a whole chapter explicitly discussing why it fucked up.
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