Was 'la Terreur' justified?

>was it justified
For sure. It was a mean to please the ambitious sans-culottes and the Paris Commune, to improve drastically the results of the French army, to repress the counter-revolutionaries and it served to empower the executive. Funnily enough, it allowed the Comittees to repress the Hebertists which permitted to prevent other bloodbaths.

>by Robespierre
Of course not

How was the killing of the King looked upon in England where monarchy wasn't as absolute?

What about America?

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>>1468899

>Charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared.

The legacy of the Revolution was not liberty but Napoleonism, which seems to haunt the French Presidency. The Terror which was visited on the Vendée and Provence was repeated in Spain, without any pretense of bringing freedom to the Spanish. Then followed the Nazis in Poland and the Ukraine for atrocities.

the French Revolution (and especially its spiritual mentor, the hallucinating Rousseau) is the political matrix of all the ugly totalitarianisms which have defaced mankind ever since, especially during the horrible 20th century.

>>1468899
Some Americans, like John Adams, were more scared by the killing of the earlier revolutionaries, although there were laws passed in reaction to the Revolution itself.

>>1468931
BUTTHURT NOBILITY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g

>>1468931
Absolute retardation: the post

It seems like the frogs need some terror in their country to feel well

>>1468076
Of course not. With the entire continent declaring war on you out of ideological necessity, counter revolutionaries trying to bring back the monarchy, such a desperate measure is justified. Also thinking Robesippre alone helmed such a move is stupid. If anything he was the one true moderate in the revolution.

>>1469014
It was the extremists who, by frightening the Aristocracy into exile, created the conditions for external intervention, thus racking up the internal panic and letting them rule by Terror.

You do not even have to be a historian to recognise a machiavallian pattern

>>1469026
>by frightening the Aristocracy into exile
You mean those people that created the need for constitutional monarchy in the first place? Boohoo

>external intervention
Excellent repackaging of the term foreign invasion.

The 2 other links are the result of the invasions. Had the French Republic not encountered such invasions at such an early stage, it could have stabilized and clean house.(like its American counterpart)

>>1469080
>Kill the Girondins to stabilize and clean house
>Kill Marat and the sans-culottes to stabilize and clean house
>Kill Danton to stabilize and clean house

As far as I can see, the French revolutionary Terror was no different from modern Terrorism; both used the idea of a swift, impersonal death as a means of spreading paralysing fear through the population, thereby permitting that population to be controlled and manipulated.

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>>1468076
Have you read up on the nobility of the Ancien Regime? Many of these chucklefucks deserved it.

>>1469156
Atleast they did not brought their terrorism outside of borders, such as ISIS

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>>1468076
Robespierre did literally

L I T E R A L L Y

Nothing wrong.

>>1469014
>Also thinking Robesippre alone helmed such a move is stupid
Obviously this

>>1469156
>Kill the Girondins
I'm sorry? Are you referring to the 31 May-2 June? If so the major part of the Gironde wasn't killed. Plus letting the Gironde in charge of the supplies in Paris and the military lead would have been a complete mistake

>kill Marat and the sans-culottes
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. The Terror was partially caused by the sans-culottes (having more and more influence through the Sections of Paris, the Commune and in the Commitee of Public Safety due to Billaud-Varenne and Collot d'Herbois).
And Marat was killed by a counter-revolutionary woman; it has absolutely nothing to do with the Terror.

>Kill Danton to stabilize and clean house
The Indulgents were a threat to economy by opposing so roughly against the law of the general maximum.
"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty." This was the only correct response to the internal troubles during the war.

>As far as I can see, the French revolutionary Terror was no different from modern Terrorism
You are full of shit mate

>>1469183
>This was the only correct response to the internal troubles during the war.
I oppose the French Revolution because had it not happened there would have been no fascist scum.

>>1469201
But this doens't make any sense

>>1469204
You know the word terror is a negative thing?
But you seem to be dressing it up as a lovely flower that makes the world a better place "mate"

>>1469212
Is this your only response?
Can you tell me what is the correlation between this post : >>1469183
and this embarrassingly nonsensical response >>1469201?
At least try to provide counter-arguments, logical statements, not just some baseless assertions

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>>1468076
these anti-revolutionary, violent, religious fanatics deserved it.

>>1469182
Why did Denmark ally with France?

>>1469212
>If virtue be the spring of a popular government in times of peace, the spring of that government during a revolution is virtue combined with terror: virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is only justice prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country ... The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Get lost faggot

>>1468882
>Paris Commune
>in the1790's
Wat

>>1469829
Are you retarded?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune_(French_Revolution)

>>1469847
Yes. I thought you were talking about 1871