Here for your bi-monthly "napoleon was a leftist" post, vive napoleon! Vive lenin! Vive marxisme-leninisme-bonapartisme!
Napoleon was the God of Historical Progress in Europe, but also the harbinger of Slavery in the Americas.
>>831701Stalin of the French revolution.
I never understood how Napoleon is RW ever made sense. He did some reactionary stuff (Haiti) but it was well within the norms of the time it would be like saying Stalin is actually a right-winger because he re-criminalized homosexuality while forgetting everything else that he did.
>>831813Monarchism is reactionary even if the "enlightened" monarch declares some progressive laws.
>>831813Napoleon was the Trump of his day. Relentless imperialism, attacking everyone around him just because he could, insane cult of personality, etc.
>>831819>Relentless imperialism, attacking everyone around him just because he couldLeaving out the inconvenient little fact that every monarchy in Europe declared war on revolutionary France before he ever took command of the army. You can make the same argument against the Bolsheviks and Stalin. An international revolution needs a leader. Can't say you're wrong about the cult of personality though, but that's just what people tend to do when you find out an absolute madman is out here toppling monarchs left and right.
>>831814It was a bit more than declaring some progressive laws lmao. He exported the revolution in all of Europe.
>>831819No. The countries we waged war at litteraly declared war on us first to destroy the reolution as it happenned.
The restauration and the white terror targeted Bonapartists the same as Republicans and Jacobins.
>>831821>He exported the revolution in all of Europe.Installing your relatives as monarchs of other countries isnt exporting revolution.
He was a king though. DEATH TO ALL ROYALTY.
If he was really revolutionary, the Holy Alliance would have had him killed. But he was a monarch, he was one of them, and so he could not have been killed. All of the Committee of Public Safety would have been killed during the revolutionary war though, if the royals got their hands on them. Napoleon was a slaver KING and he should only ever be remembered as those two things. Rightoids love him because he is the opposite of the popular revolution.
(Oliver Cromwell on the other hand was a revolutionary, and guess what? Cromwell rejected being a King).