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The frwnch revolution was right about one thing: some people's heads and their necks shouldn't necessarily be connected. Behead redditards!
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As far as I can tell, it isn't, so that whole thread is based on a false premise. From what I've seen, historians usually have more nuanced views than just seeing either the American or the French revolution as the main catalyst for global democracy.
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Yeah it would be weird to consider either as the catalyst when it was more generally a wealthy middle class demanding representation and need for expanded government institutions to handle an expanding global economy that eventually lead to the liberalization of most autocracies in europe.
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It was a long running movement in England itself forever
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I would put the 1848 revolutions above either of them, but I guess you could make the argument that they were inspired the the French Revolution
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