by #SethAckerman in #Jacobin:

"The natural response is to look back on the euphoric triumphs of, say, the sans-culottes in the streets of Paris, and despair at our comparative failure to puncture the political status quo. But to do so is to fall victim to one of those retrospective optical illusions with which history is constantly presenting us. For if the present moment feels like a Thermidor, it’s because the original Thermidor — the definitive end of the radical phase of the French Revolution, which was followed by years of repression, popular apathy and de-mobilization, the destruction of the revolutionary Republic itself, and eventually the restoration of the very Bourbon monarchy that the Paris crowds had brought down decades earlier — felt a lot like the present."

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/french-revolution-left-legacy-successes

#history #FrenchRevolution #Paris #Bastille #BastilleDay

I picture a guillotine with assorted social media billionaires' heads rolling. The executioner is hooded, but seems to have large ears and a trunk.

Happy Bastille Day, everyone! 🇫🇷

#BastilleDay

What we can learn from the storming of the Bastille (today is #BastilleDay ) is that rioting works. Riot and be violent.
#anarchism

Remember, the #IdesOfMarch is the day we celebrate stabbing dictators specifically. The conspirators were just as evil and corrupt as Caesar and were only pissed he won. We celebrate the masses riding up against the rich/nobility on #BastilleDay on July 14.

🇫🇷 🇪🇺 Happy Bastille Day, France! Bon 14 juillet!

France was one of the six founding countries of the EU, and it is in the TOP5 of EU trade marks & RCDs filings since the EUIPO opened its doors.

155 699 EUTMs (3 910 this year)
116 034 RCDs (2818 this year)

#BastilleDay

Para conmemorar esta fecha hemos elegido una vieja y poderosa versión en vivo de #BastilleDay de #Rush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1gmKUoqbY