I’m Haitian so I’m biased and going to say the Haitian revolution !
I love my heritage 🇭🇹
I also like the Paris commune, that’s interesting to learn about
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It’s actually very telling how some white people are angry that my people murdered the French colonizers.
So this is just a reminder. Call me a Haitian devil all you want but I love being Haitian eitherway and I’m proud that my brave ancestors fought to liberate Haiti ❤️
This reminds me of reading that when someone or other among the 20th century Chinese politicians was asked for their opinion on the French Revolution, they said that it was too early to tell.
I kind of like any independence actions that get rid of parasites who live on the backs of those they refuse to treat as well as they treat themselves. I think that might have been the thought behind term limits, to keep government moving and not be taken over and bled dry by any one static faction.
I'm impressed by the Cubans standing up to the biggest military force in history, except for not staying true to the idea of fairness as far as free speech and opinion is concerned. but it's also not as though many western democracies encourage communism as a political option and it's sooner surprising when any of them do allow it.
The Portuguese revolution in '74-'75 is probably my favorite, instigated from within the army and quickly co-opted by popular resistance. Even if things aren't perfect there, social conditions, in terms of civil rights, did improve and still, today, there is consistent change for the better.
It also seems like the good gets quickly taken over by the hunger for power in most revolutions, so maybe they should just keep on happening, just in the aspect of self-improvement, like Portugal, rather than getting bogged down in the personality-cult posturing that happens all over.
It is what the word revolution means, to keep turning over. Back in the mid-20th century, many history books still referred to the events around 1776 as the American Revolution, but there was a switch to full-time calling it the War of Independence over time, curiously just as civil rights began to be in the news, so that, now, the former term seem almost like something nobody ever said.
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I am also proud of the conquest of İstanbul. 🇹🇷 Mehmed the Conqueror has given us this beautiful city. We are grateful to him.
The American Revolution. Though not everyone benefited from its founding, it at least had a path built in to it, to make corrections, to seek ways to find opportunities to recognize that all people are worthy of liberty and freedom as an inalienable right. That's why even Frederick Douglas grew to love the American Constitution. He didn't want to destroy it, he wanted to be a inheritor of it and to make it a gift for all the generations to come.
What was their revolution to create this nation become the revolution of Frederick Douglas to be an equal in this nation under the Constitution. And it is now our revolution to keep what they wanted to build and be part of.
The American Revolution was not a period of time but a revolution in the philosophy of self government and independence. It's a Revolution still in movement now.
It's my favorite because it's now our Revolution for every person who wants to keep it.
What the world has done to Haiti is deplorable. I'm a fan of the french revolution simply because of the ending... Rich assholes got the guillotine. Served as a great warning for at least a couple of generations. Unfortunately, every country in the world needs to build new guillotines, there's a lot of heads that need attention. Let's start with congress in the USA. I can only think of 5 members who deserve to be spared.
Actually, it improved them (eventually) by the mandatory introduction of the Factories act (1833), and others throughout the next 100 years, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/.../
Before the Industrial weekend, there were no rights as such, it was only a couple hundred years since the end of Serfs.
It gave normal people a chance to progress out of an agrarian dominated society. It was a huge dynamic shift away from something that had not really changed for 1000’s of years.
It’s been said a few times, that the industrial revolutions prevented any revolution in the UK.
HAWAII..., and how really its NOT a state of the United States. Just as Pear Harbor Attack was'nt accually an attack on Hawaii itself , but on the illeagal occupiers ( US military ) .
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The American Revolution. It's founders made a blueprint for a country that was like no other in existence. In 250 years it remains the greatest country in the world.
Womens rights, Black human rights (Including emancipation proclamation, ending Jim Crow, Equal oppurtinity and Integration) Punk Rock Revolution for Disablity Rights,
The American War of Independence or the Newton Knight revolution against the confederacy. He's an intelligent, non murderous savage, pro American version of John Brown and for those reasons, he was actually successful in his rebellion.
The 3rd servile war. One of the greatest slave revolts. There was the Zanj Rebellion in the middle east where African slaves revolted against their Arab masters.
Since my country has a very ancient past it is really hard to chose. My favorite revolution is the war of the Lombard League against the German Emperor Frederick I of Honestaufen known as Barbarossa.
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“The slaves sought revenge on their masters through "pillage, rape, torture, mutilation, and death". The long years of oppression by the planters had left many blacks with a hatred of all whites, and the revolt was marked by extreme violence from the very start. The masters and mistresses were dragged from their beds to be killed, and the heads of French children were placed on pikes that were carried at the front of the rebel columns.”
Also that’s objectively not true. There were white people which fought along side the Haitians and were spared. Not to mention you forget that Haitian people were raped, tortured, murdered, and dehumanized for years.
Haiti huh? I do not know much about their history or what they used to be like but I do know it is one of the worst places on earth now so... it didn't seem to improve any.
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And it’s bad because of imperialism. Look at all the companies steal Haiti’s resources, as well as climate change. It’s on a fault line and that plus climate change getting worst makes Haiti vulnerable
No, the world doesn't work that way. If a country is a sheeet show now... but hey, once upon a time there was European colonialism... so every woe that country has for a 1,000 years can all just be dumped back to that.
I looked it up. This happened around 1800. That is 220 FREAKING YEARS AGO. If you can't produce a free, stable, educated, thrifty country in 220 years... that's on the people that live there now. Take some freaking responsibility.
It must be so convenient and easy to just blame every shortcoming you have on something hundreds of years ago and take no responsibility for it yourself.
You are sad if you truly believe the generations that have lived and died there have nothing to do with the state of that country but it all goes back to France having a colony there until the end of the 1790's. It's all the damn French's fault...220 years of self rule isn't enough time to have a stable country that is peaceful, has an education system, a tourism economy in a Caribbean Paradise geographically, export some crop. Usually horrid conditions over such a long time comes down to one thing. Corruption.
Years and years of government corruption.
220 years. Hell, Germany has been devastated and rebuilt itself several times after World Wars. Blaming your woes on sheeet from 200 HUNDRED FREAKING YEARS AGO?
Lol you do realize my country paid France $21 billion to preserve our independence? We didn’t stop paying them until 1825. My grandma was alive during that time, it really wasn’t that long.
And look at how multinational companies took advantage of Haiti during the earthquakes. They lied about helping Haiti, they allowed multinationals to exploit Haiti.
I honestly hate the fact that I have to explain my peoples lives experience to ignorant ass white folks that deny the fact that first world countries are built off of the work of black and brown people. These economies were built off of natives, off of black people, off of Asian people.
The free market allows for the exploitation of developing nations to persist.
And America has literally overthrown our democratically elected leaders. Do you not know of the military coups that happened in Haiti?
If there is anything that this girl you're pathetically attempting to try to put down is not, it's pathetic. Too blind with macho prejudice to even consider that your sources might be invested in supporting your historical bias. You're such a disappointment.
I'm American, so I guess the American REVOLUTION!!!
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Y'all had it bad from the start after the revolution. It's a shame that DR progressed further than Haiti because discrimination. They both should've thrived the same.
Oh really I feel happy, I would like to learn more about Haitian revolution too. And I saw your update that people are unhappy your people fought back for independence, they are just a bunch of scumbags who believe colonization was a great thing
A revolution is literally defined as being “an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed”
Violence has been necessary in order to accomplish revolution throughout history.
As the honorable Malcolm x once said “ you can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom”
This perfectly encapsulates the issue with the notion of a peaceful revolution
“an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed” no where it says there must be a murder rape fest and that it can't be peaceful. Gosh, didn't you learned about ghandi?
Also, you don't seem to understand that peaceful revolution doesn't mean there's peace for the people in the revolution.
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