The story of 1848 is that liberals almost got snookered into letting leftists ride their movement into power until conservatives saved Europe and brought about one of Europe's longest peaceful epochs.https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/1003723796518498305 …
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Look liberalism is the bomb and I totally cheer for Team Liberalism throughout history! But guys when we get to Russia in the 1920s we see what happens when the revolutionary left wins.
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Or France in the early 1790s. "Actually history would be better with more demagogues riding the passion of the mob to power" is actually not a good take.
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Do I cheer for Metternich? No. But as soon as it became clear that liberals lacked any durable constituency, there was only 1 option left for a peaceful Europe: conservatives.
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Also yes I know 1848 gave rise to wars of German unification. But the wars of German/Italian unification were way less protracted and bloody than a second wave of revolutionary warfare would have been.
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Worth noting German and Italian unification were in reaction to the napoleonic wars making total war a reality. So even those wars can really be blamed on the french revolution enabling citizen armies and making them mandatory for survival. france kind of fucked up everything.
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