{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The American narrative kind of groups the American and French Revolutions on one side as liberation!\nAnd the whole...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/187880057678/", "html": "<p>The American narrative kind of groups the American and French Revolutions on one side as liberation!</p><p>And the whole WWI-Interwar-WWII thing on another as totalitarianism!</p><p>And in between faffs about with its own expansion and Civil War</p><p>You know what gets left out? <i>1848</i>, and the fact that every leading state thereafter was modeled after Prussia in taking The People seriously and starting out by conquering its own population</p>"}