I don’t think people understand that the French Revolution largely failed because it led to Napoleon, which led France to become an Empire again… Also, the legal system set up by the revolutiaries led to Capitalism thriving in France and other parts of Europe. The French Revolution was sparked by a failing if the Monarchies creditors and a state bankruptcy. The revolutiaries wanted the poor to have similar opportunities of investment and land ownership that the royals had. It’s typical that many American and European leftist can’t even read a few history books on what the Revolution was actually about and how it was a failure for modern socialism. They just see poor people killing royalty and insert themselves as the poor revolutionary and some boomer as the monarch, it was much more complicated than that.