k_a_nitz: Modern Capitalism II (Default)
k_a_nitz ([personal profile] k_a_nitz) wrote in [personal profile] causticus 2024-09-03 09:13 pm (UTC)

I'm not entirely convinced that it inspired peoples all over the rest of the Western world to rise up against the old regimes. The 1848 revolutions, for example, were mostly socialist-inspired or about the drive to nationalism (ie Italy united but then looked to appoint a king, and in 1848 the Germans wanted to unite under a king, but he declined). And of course there were earlier demonstrations of enduring states based other than on divine right, eg. Athens, the Roman republic, and Iceland (which is an interesting example as it wasn't really a state in the modern sense, ie no executive per se, nor part of another state). So I don't think there was anything 'truly' revolutionary, it was merely a war of succession which used the narrative of revolution to legitimise itself.

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