[2banana]

The first socialist revolution...

Ends in massive slaughtering of its own citizens.

To be repeated everytime it is tried

[mainestategop]

Yup. And coming soon to America G-d forbid...

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE!

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo. The French Revolution was extraordinarily different from the American. All the shouts of Liberte! Fraternite! Egalite! in the world won’t change the totalitarian nature of the French Revolution, and the fact that it led directly to Napoleon, Marx, and the 20th Century Communists.

[IWontSubmit]

This: Louis d'Elbée
He is famous for his actions after the Battle of Chemillé, on 11 April 1793: after the insurgents' victory, many of them planned to avenge their dead and slaughter the Republican prisoners (approx. 400). D'Elbée tried to prevent them, and eventually asked them to recite the Our Father, which they did; then, when they had reached the sentence "And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who have trespassed against us", he interrupted them with the words: "Do not lie to God!". Moved by this reproach, his men turned away, and d'Elbée was able to save the prisoners. This episode has since become known as "Le Pater d'Elbée" (d'Elbée's Pater Noster).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_d%27Elbée

Louis d'Elbée and his troops subsequently received no mercy from the Revolutionaries...

Draw your own conclusions concerning our times .....

[Buttons12]

Don’t know if she mentions it, but the “Great Fear” of 1789 made the Revolution inevitable.

I’m listening now, she talks about a “largely stable” economy and overall “contentment.” But that was not the case in the years leading up to the Revolution. Bad harvests for some years (possibly due to a volcano in Iceland) had the people terrified by 1788. The people started to suspect the government was deliberately making things worse — there was talk of a “famine plot.”

Recommended reading: Great Fear of 1789 by Georges Lefebvre. There’s a paperback edition, English translation. I have one, not very old, so it must be on amazon, and probably a free e-book on google.