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What kind of emotions does this portrait make you feel?
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Longing. I want a victory like this to happen again. At the same time, I think about the huge sacrifices, that were necessary to get this far. The revolutionary in the picture stands alone. How many comrades were killed on the way to get there? Who is missing and can't share this moment? Feudalists murdered all those people to protect what? This empty, pointless luxury must feel painfully insulting to the memory of the fallen comrades. It can't bring them back. In this situation, I would feel like tearing it all down and burning it.
And this was just before the Civil War. There would be a lot more fallen comrades.
What was that quote again about the violence of a revolution being nothing compared to the long running systemic violence that preceds it?
Also, we need :mark-twain: emoji.
Thank you!
I'm thinking we should retire that one. After all, it is a quote about a bourgeois revolution for the bourgeoisie. Perhaps this one, instead?
Frederich Engels
Twain quote is still good, and the French revolution was still progressive one which have immense influence over socialism and basically all marxist theoreticians uphold it after suitable critique.
Acknowledge
Okay, head-canon: of course, there were still comrades left, just "off camera". And after this, they left and hugged and drank to their victory calling out the names of those they lost with every toast.
There are two more revolutionaries in the background, BTW.