The French Revolution

>>2772558
Watch the 1989 movie if you don't want to read. It's ob youtube.
Instead of a peaceful transition to constitutional monarchy it became a tyranny with many counterrevolutions throughout the 19th century. They went back to when they started many times. The revolution was a failure.

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>>2772558
The ideals of the Revolution are what modern society is based on, and even though it devolved into an autocracy, said autocrat (Napoleon) spread this modern thinking around all Europe. In the short term, for the French people, it failed, but in the long term, for the world as a whole, it has been a massive success, and arguably one of the most important events in history.

I think the reason people don't like it, is that we have a lot of monarchists here (who'd obviously be opposed to tearing down traditions and instituting republics) and because of general ignorance on the subject.
How could life for the average person in "western civilization" possibly have it worse, than a peasant in renaissance Germany? It is nostalgia for what one has never, and will never experience.

>>2772558

Also, read Evola.
It's basically the point of no return of western civilization. It's when ideas about justice and law being the result of an agreement between citizens rather than absolutes started to emerge. This tended to spread even more ideas that justice and goodness are relative - leading to modern times.

>>2772619
American revolution was earlier, had better political thinkers, didn't regress into genocidal tyranny. It's not like it invented classical liberalism in Europe. And strong monarchies were dominant until 1918 anyway.

>>2772663
American revolution had no wider effect on the world (though you could say the French revolution was inspired by it?), and didn't they both draw from enlightenment thinkers?

Strong monarchies were done for in 1918. Prior to this, most monarchies had either given way to constitutions or republics, or had experienced violent uprisings. Examples are Denmark, whose king stepped down willingly, and Austria, who had to fight to keep the state, and monarchy, intact.