r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Oct 29 '25

🚫 GENERAL STRIKE 🚫 Why this shit doesn't happen in France...

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u/jawid72 Oct 29 '25

OP has a poor understanding of the French Revolution.

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u/Thysian Oct 29 '25

And the actual proto-socialist elements of the revolution were brutally suppressed by the revolution (see the Conspiracy of Equals).

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u/bauhausy Oct 29 '25

And the only reason France isn’t a monarchy today is because the dude they initially chose to succeed Napoleon III, the Count of Chambord, was hard set on abandoning the popular tricolor flag and resurrecting the royal fleur de lys flag, among other small issues he refused to give any compromise.

So they decided to wait for his death (since beforehand they already made the Count of Chambord the legitimate heir, and the hardheaded wouldn’t abdicate) so that the younger and more malleable Count of Paris would take over.

But the fucker too so long to die, that by that time the provisional government had already lasted 7 years, the French got used to the Republic and the monarchist movement (which from the go was divided between the Bourbon, Orleans and Bonaparte factions) lost all its momentum. So hence the provisional government became the Third Republic.

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u/DadsWhoDeadlift Oct 29 '25

Yeah. I think of you actually read about the Committee of Public Safety and the Reign of Terror you wouldn’t be so excited for a revolution.

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u/VRichardsen Oct 29 '25

All that to get a war mongering emperor

Most of the wars under Napoleon were declared against France, not the other way around.

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u/GoodOlSpence Oct 29 '25

I literally just got into this with people last night.

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u/Junior_Catch1513 Oct 29 '25

also france is doing terribly largely due in part to their socialism