#proprietarism — Public Fediverse posts

The French Revolution of 1789 was federalist. #Bonaparte's coup d'état in 1799 led to a new regime, the Consulate.
While legislative power had been at the heart of the French Revolution, it was crushed in 1799 and replaced by an omnipotent executive power, concentrated in the hands of one man who made it his own.
It was no longer elected officials who make decisions, but civil servants. The constitution was used to transform citizens into subjects.
The concentration was accompanied by a bloody colonial reaction in Guadeloupe and Saint-Domingue, along with the re-instatement of slavery in 1802.
The social order was based on the owner having the ‘right to enjoy and dispose of things in the most absolute manner’, the boss dominating his workers, the master his slaves, the husband his wife, the father his children.

Marc Belissa, Yannick Bosc (fr) https://lafabrique.fr/le-consulat-de-bonaparte/

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