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    10 months ago

    Liberalism is ahistorical and has been since at least 1871.

    One of the main point Marx discovered when he studied economic theories (leaving 3 thick books worth of notes in the process) was that after Ricardo liberal economics stopped developing further and instead took two steps back and became ass-eating ouroboros of delusion, because otherwise it would bring them to the same point Marx himself was. And so, the liberal historiography inevitably also stopped right on the French revolution, cutting it in the good and bad parts obviously along their anachronistic post-revolution class interests. Or as would Lenin put it, their fear of revolutionary workers and peasants greatly overwhelm their fear of monarchs.