[ProgressingAmerica]

This is a bit off.

1848 was when a lot of communist inspired revolutions took hold and gave us the world we have today.

[Nextrush]

The elites want us to pay not them.

Carbon Taxes In Any Way Shape Or Form Exemplify That.

[pierrem15]

Numbers aren't enough without a political organization to back them.

You need subsidiary political organizations (like the states) or you need members of the elite to go renegade to form new parties or coopt old ones.

That's why billionaires like Trump and Musk are so feared and hated by other elites: they are the most potent threats to the corrupt oligarchs ruling us.

[MeganC]

“the people obtained rights”

How do you obtain something that’s already yours?

You can secure your rights, defend your rights, and have your rights infringed but they are always and forever your rights.

[devane617]

If there is one thing I have learned in my long life it’s that history is meaningless. There are always a good supply of dumb people to repeat the worse nightmares from the past.

[telescope115]

I have to admit I wasn’t aware of 1848 in Europe. When I went to school over 50 years ago,history wasn’t one of my strong subjects. I DO remember one book for one class was the Marx/Engels Reader. It’s probably a good thing that I wasn’t a good history student because I can’t remember if the reason for having to read it was to criticize it or support it. Probably support it.

[Jeff Chandler]

revolution broke out in Bavaria

And two years later my ancestors skedaddled.

[jdege]

Out of all of that, it’s the independence movement in Kalinigrad that’s likely to be the biggest problem.

[sauropod]

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[Tennessee Nana]

Marx, Karl, The Communist Manifesto, 1848

[FarCenter]

1848 is more like 1989 with the rebellions in the Warsaw Pact countries, the collapse of the USSR, Tiananmen Square and the various color revolutions.

At present, we are now in the 1890s, which were also a period of economic malaise, social disruption with striking workers, a realignment of international alliances (Russia realigned with France and Britain, instead of Germany and Austria-Hungary), and restive colonial possessions. The rise of China very much parallels the rise of Germany after unification in 1870.

[x]

No, I don’t see it.

The “Arab Spring” was supposed to be 1848, the “Springtime of Nations.” It wasn’t.