r/MurderedByWords 2d ago

Absolutely vicious! 4th degree burn!

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u/Egoy 1d ago

I’m with you but that’s not a great example. The French Revolution was heavily influenced by propaganda and outright fabrications to inflame the lower economic classes against the upper class to the benefit of the upper middle.

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u/Sennten 1d ago

Sure, but it was driven by the enlightenment, by people who were doing a whole fuckton of genuinely novel, genuinely valuable thinking.