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I can celebrate the original ideals of the Revolution. They were, and are, transcendent and beautiful.
The original ideals underlying capitalism are kind of nice too. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is a lovely paean to the power of the free market and how it would benefit society by keeping prices low and keeping people employed. The actual implementation of those ideals didn't work so well though. So does that mean that the original ideas were flawed or how they were applied in real life?