• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Misleading. That number includes deaths in the Napoleonic Wars.

    The Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars were not a necessary consequence of the Revolution. They were largely triggered by European monarchs attempting to make the world safe for tyranny.

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      9 months ago

      I think the US is the only country where a revolution might be able to happen without the other western powers themselves coming in to put it down and save capitalism (assuming it’s an anti-capitalist revolution).

      But I’m not even sure that it wouldn’t happen to the US. The ruling class will pull out all of the stops to save their power (with the added incentive that it might also save their lives because of how successful revolutions tend to go for those at the top).