A Revolution's Fate

Day 2,416, 12:34 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Jny123

In many ways the recent events in eUK could be seen as a revolution. The definition of revolution is-
"a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system."
So Vendetta have in fact caused a revolution against TUP, who were the dominant power in eUK politics until recently. With this there are of course some people who now sit in fear of what may happen next, but what will happen next? I'm going to look at some historical revolutions and see if they could be mirrored here on Erepublik.



One of the most known, and the one most people think of when they hear the word, is the French Revolution of 1789*. This was a violent revolution which lead to Napoleon and some of the worst regimes imagined. One of the key people in the revolution was Robespierre, a lawyer who rose to prominence in the early revolutionary governments. He and other Jacobin members eventually began a period that is known simply as "The Great Terror". Removing people in the middle of the night never to be seen again and killing political rivals Robespierre is one of the most fierce figures of this revolution. He was eventually removed by those who had put him in power when he clearly became weak enough to be removed, permanently.

The potential of a figure like Robespierre is possible in Erepublik, a player wielding massive political support through their bullying and bribery of others is a real threat. Although they could not remove players from the game they could make it difficult for political rivals to run for positions, even for PP. Of course this force would not have to be a single person, Robespierre was backed by a small group who enacted his reign of terror. Each person in this group held their own support which they funneled into Robespierre.
Vendetta's revolution could easily go this way with both of the top 2 parties under their control. I am aware not all of the TUP members simply follow what the PP says but there will be a good number of those who do and with many of the influential players in TUP leaving either different parties or other countries the future is somewhat bleak for that party.



It would be odd to not look at the English Revolution. "What revolution?" I hear you say, i speak of course of the English Civil War. Now hold the baw on it not been a revolution because in a way it was. Parliament wanted to push minor reforms on the King who refused and there was a war over it, by the end of it major reforms took place. The main focus of this revolution for me is that the monarchy was dismantled and England became a Republic for its first and last time.

This can be most compared with the recent suggestion that the eUK Monarchy should be abolished. In ways this does not represent the English Civil War so much as it does Robespierre's reign of terror, removing potential rivals who hold influence that could challenge them. However i must not digress, after the 2nd(yes 2nd) Civil war the king was executed for treason. The recent attack could be our second "civil war", with the first being that of the PTO/ATO war that recently ended. Were the monarchy to end eUK there would be almost no-one who could get a united counter-revolution going. You could say that King Woldy could do this anyway but there is still a point to be made. No monarchy, no power figure.


At this point i could go on but I think i shall end this article here. I feel you grasp the idea that revolutions are 99% of the time a messy affair and are followed swiftly by Chaos. However there is hope, from some revolutions spring great periods of prosperity. For many of us though this revolution does not look that way so i shall shout yet more hope. Both of the revolutions i have named here ultimately failed. After the king was executed and Cromwell became lord Protector that was a period of terror for most, yet it ended and the monarch restored. When the French stopped shooting one another(and some short general called himself emperor) they did enjoy a period of peace with no crazy people ruling them. For a brief period they even restored the monarchy.

Before the Vendetta trolls descend to abuse me i will say that i'm fairly neutral about this. Don't get me wrong i don't like you, but i didn't like the old regime much either.

Now for my ending quote. Thanks for reading, please vote/subscribe/shout.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.