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@telepyleia @ErictheCerise @jens
Yes, you are misunderstanding the point — mostly by overinterpreting it.

The core thought there is “I wish people would stop romanticizing the French Revolution” and “no fairy tale outcome.” Just that.

There’s a wrongheaded strain of thought that never seems to die to the effect that revolution yields utopia (though people rarely state it so baldly, because it sounds silly), and thus social collapse is Good Actually 🧐🧐🧐. People sometimes hold up the French Revolution as an example of this.

My argument is that (1) if you’re looking for models of success to follow, the French Revolution is perhaps not an ideal one, and (2) social destabilization brings long-term risks, and isn’t a panacea.

I mean, don’t get me wrong; I’m glad the French ended the monarchy. (All 3? 4? times they ended it? I lose count.) And I hope we defeat oligarchy too. We must.