French Revolutions were good They went too far in some ways. But the Ancien Regime was shit, the ONLY reason they were better than our oligarchs is because they were nominally Christian. But the king and nobility were idiots, they needed to be removed.
French revolutions were much like all other revolutions: good intentions that led to disastrous consequences.
Yes, the French monarchy of the time was indeed shit. But the Republican government was
even worse. Napoleon was basically savior of France... pity other monarchs didn't want to work with him.
Napoleon was a much better leader. He was the pinacle and one of the greatest leaders on par with Caesar or Alexander the Great Simping and cucking for early modern monarchs is the epitome of cuckoldry if they fell they did not have divine right or God's protection. But some people who suck off Anglo/Protestant/German culture whine about Napoleon who was unambigious good.
Napoleon was not unambigious good nor were the absolute monarchs unambigious evil. Napoleon was a self-centered egomaniac with a lot of decent ideas and some terrible ones. Most of the absolute monarchs of the time were simply flawed people trying to do their best... but here is the thing:
centralization is evil, and absolute monarchy was the beginning of the modernist centralized states.
Revolutions of 1848 were also good they NATIONALIST. If you whine about them, why do you also whine about modern oligarchs who want to bring in various groups into countries. Because here is the thing the Austrians they were a multi ethnic mess, just like what the EU wants.
No, they were not. You clearly do not understand shit about the revolutions of 1848 if you think they were some kind of pure nationalism. Nor do I see nationalism as a prerequisite of survival of an ethnic corpus. But let's tackle these one by one...
1) There is a reason why basically everybody sided with Austrian throne against Hungarians... except, ironically, Austrians themselves. Marx and Engels would proceed to whine about it, and even say that Croats deserve to be genocided for our role in crushing the Hungarian revolution, but matter of the fact is that Hungarians wanted to replace Austrian Empire with their own Hungarian Empire. And unlike Austrians, who
did allow a degree of self-governance and respect for local culture and customs, Hungarians of the time were only interested in turning everybody else into Hungarians.
Hence this.
2) Austrian Empire was indeed multi-national, but it was far from being a mess. Austria-Hungary was far worse of a mess than the Austrian Empire ever was, and its formation was a direct consequence of revolutions of 1848.
And nobody was happy with the outcome. Not the Austrians, who had lost half the Empire; not the Hungarians, who had
less freedoms than before; and definitely not smaller ethnic groups, whose freedoms were
even more curtailed than before.
3) While Austrian-Empire was a multi-national empire like the European Union,
unlike the European Union, it was not busy promoting the genocide of literally every single ethnic group within its borders. Will it have started to do so had it survived until today? Possibly so, but modern-day ideologies of multiculturalism, globalism, cosmopolitanism and other such genocidal bullshit only appeared as a consequence of the Second World War... which will not have happened had Austria-Hungary survived.
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4) Revolutions in Italy also led to Italy wanting to take Croatian coast, which led to Fascism and the Ustashi regime.
5) Galicia had no revolution, and their demands were in fact perfectly reasonable.
For Karl, him being born in Germany means almost nothing he fled from there to avoid persecution he was able to go to England with it's love of freedom that allows anykind of subversion and create the worst ideas known to man. So if any nation should be blamed it should be the British Empire.
It means everything, because his ideas were formed during his life in Germany:
Marx was educated from 1830 to 1835 at the
high school in Trier. Suspected of harbouring liberal teachers and pupils, the school was under police surveillance. Marx's writings during this period exhibited a spirit of Christian devotion and a longing for self-sacrifice on behalf of humanity. In October 1835 he
matriculated at the University of Bonn. The courses he attended were exclusively in the humanities, in such subjects as Greek and
Roman mythology and the history of art. He participated in customary student activities, fought a duel, and spent a day in jail for being drunk and disorderly. He presided at the Tavern Club, which was at odds with the more aristocratic student associations, and joined a poets' club that included some political activists. A politically rebellious student
culture was, indeed, part of life at
Bonn. Many students had been arrested; some were still being expelled in Marx's time, particularly as a result of an effort by students to disrupt a session of the
Federal Diet at Frankfurt. Marx, however, left Bonn after a year and in October 1836 enrolled at the
University of Berlin to study
law and
philosophy.
But yes, British Empire certainly played a part in allowing him to develop and spread his ideas.
The Soviets, well Germany wanted to weaken and destroy a nation. Communism is a good way to do that.
Agreed.
WW2 you can say that it would have happened regardless of anything because of what France and the UK did to Germany.
That is a myth, I'd say. What France and UK did (dissolution of German Empire, putting blame on Germany, reparations) certainly did help, but I don't think they were the key. Reparations were in fact comparatively lenient, compared to reparations France was forced to pay in 1878.
1 2 And most of said reparations ended up being paid...
by the United States.
Main reason why Hitler rose to power was... the threat of Communism created by USSR and its continual support for Communist revolutions abroad.
World War 2 was caused by USSR and Communism, both of which had originated in Germany.
The EU you do know the bad parts about the EU are the same as bad parts of America or the UK or other western liberal nations.
You know the EU was formed
by France and Germany?
Prosperity breeds free time.
Free time breeds intellectuals.
Intellectuals have done nothing, but believe they know everything.
This intellectualized inexperience breeds really dumb decisions.
Dumb decisions lead to what we've gotten.
A prosperous society has to be willing to smother the intellectuals' stupid ideas in order to stay prosperous.
AGREED!