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What's Missing From the French Revolution?

I think what you're talking about, it's kind of like structural masochism. That's required in order to then offset the populist reactionary response to any kind of revolutionary change. Like if I had said, listen, this may not be what you wanna hear, but we actually need to hurt the nation. To move forward. It's interesting. Right? And so that kind of, that gave birth to [the] Vondays where the main populist revolt occurred. But there still was this idea that from, from Paris, that the committee of public safety, that there was this, that they could take up this phallic position. Which is a little too much of the right

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