Explanation: “We should bring back the guillotine” or similar is a common internet quip in response to billionaires doing billionaire things, when in reality the guillotine was invented to provide equal and humane deaths to people of all classes, and from there it was always a tool of the state rather than the people. Not the best euphemism for “we should depose the bourgeoisie.” In fact plenty of Revolutionary justice folks were themselves offed by the guillotine during the Terror.
Nope. There were plenty of bourgeoisie in late 18th century France. I mean hell, you even had proto-socialists then (that’s the Enrages). The “industrial” part of industrial capitalism wasn’t a thing yet, but bankers, speculators and filthy rich merchants were very much a thing.