• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    Yes, Marquis de Lafayette was a famous example of a noble going against the privilege system and in favor of democracy.

    I think Robespierre is one of the pioneer of both left ideology, and left extremism leading to autoritarism and its crimes as we later saw in communist Russia and China.

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      Give someone the power of life and death and they’ll start to equate attacks on them with attacks on the state which deserves death

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      is one of the pioneers of both left idiology and left extremism

      Thomas Münzer and the peasent revolts with the Memminger Charter and the ditmarscher peasent republic: Hold our beer we’ll join

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        Thomas Münzer

        Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know about how m. It’s quite intriguing that his revolutionary ideas came from his theology according to his wiki page.

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          If i may, please look into Kurt Eisner as well! And especially the type of democracy he wanted for bavaria and later germany (a council republik where you also elect your workplace leaders and can always unelect them!)

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          Yes it did. “God created all men equal, so why is nobility and clergy worth more than a farmer” was his idea. Nobles hunted him. Even martin luther warned against him