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Driving home from camp last year, I listened to a radio documentary on the equivalent of Canadian NPR talking about how the guillotine had become a worldwide symbol for the left of fighting oppression, without a hint of irony or self-awareness.
Edit: Found the link
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/listen-return-of-the-guillotine-1.6234238
They've spent my entire life equating the French and American Revolutions as the same thing fundamentally, but of course that was just cover to deflect criticism of the one they think was actually the good and moral one that they'd like to repeat. It was always a coded threat, that they have since stopped pretending and just put guillotines on their gay communist pokemon wedding cakes.
I see you gay communists, I have always seen you.
I think the French revolution is largely regarded as a series of mistakes. Like, sure, cut off the heads of the King and oppressors, but there wasn't much of a plan -- or should I say there were many competing plans. Therefore they went through the Terror, and Napoleon, and so many Republics.
The USA was somewhat unusual in that a stable government was formed in the aftermath. They had some idea of what they were going to do before fighting the British.
I always suspected that the guillotine and the excitement of public political executions led directly to "the terror."
The Reign of Terror has also served as a sort of blueprint (intentionally or not) for the mopping-up operations of communist revolutions: