asserting who’s “side” has been picked by “posterity” is pompous, fatuous, and, as you may recall, a famous obamite verbal mind trick — his opponents were always “on the wrong side of history”. it was always particularly annoying.
look, if you want to live in a fetishistic delusion of the terror, and an absolute misunderstanding of the political and historical disasters (plural) that immediately followed, and were caused by, the french revolution, then go with God.
but it’s a bit twisted to admire a violent revolt that descended into chaos, created a republic that barely lasted ten years, and let to Bonaparte and the entire european continent at war.
Freedom, religious conscience, the right to do anything the law does not forbid and the capacity of people to pursue their abilities and talents irrespective of their station in life - those where the ideals the French Revolution brought forth and they can be defended on their merits as liberal and democratic in nature.
I can see why it was necessary while having no problem condemning the 1917 Russian Revolution. If it does not benefit humanity, its not worth defending.