Posted on 03/26/2020 1:29:00 PM PDT by babylon_times
While we hope to never experience a revolution in our lifetime in America, it is important that we understand and learn from the revolutions of history. For part 1 of my series on revolutions, we are going to look at one of the defining revolutions in history — The French Revolution of 1789. Many today wrongly believe that the French Revolution was a success. By all measures, it was rather an abject failure, delaying France’s adoption of Democracy by more than one hundred years...
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Lamp posts
Whatever it takes
How was that an improvement?
Half the people in France died for nothing huh?
First Communist Revolution
Good article.
No, not for nothing.
Their deaths kicked off almost every Terror of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. From the death camps to the gulags to the modern Left ... all stem in one way or another from the epic shit moment in history that was the French Revolution.
Indeed, from the beginning of the progressive movement in America in the 19th century they were people who wanted something more French, with government only limited by what is politically doable and not by any want for enumerated powers. Where all privileges and immunities were political in nature rather than have English Common Law as the basis for put Laws. People who wanted to haul us back away from the genius of our founding. I suppose in that they were the predecessors of current nitwits who imagine that THEY will be the ones to finally make socialism work.
The French were the very first to get ****ed over by modernity and the Administrative form of laws ... that’s got to count for something.
Bkmrk
In that the French Revolution ultimately led to The Paris Commune, which was the real inspiration for those Terrors.
The French Revolution, a product of the French Enlightenment, was about men.
(Not original thought on my part; borrowed from Taylor Caldwell.)
German Poet Friedrich Schiller said of the French Revolution, “A great moment met a small people...”
Back in the autumn of 2016 I suffered an aortic dissection; the inner layer of my aorta peeled off the middle layer all the way from the bottom of the arch to the top of my leg. I spent three weeks in the hospital while they tried to figure out what to do with me. Just before it happened I had started reading Carlyle's book on the French Revolution. That was the wrong thing to do while trying to recover from a very bad condition, wondering if I was going to survive, and thinking I'd never get out of that damned hospital. The most depressing thing I have ever read.
If anything like that ever happens again, I'll spend my time watching YouTube videos and reading the comments.
That’s actually a very good, and succinct analysis!
Thanks for the ping! This is not the last time we will encounter the concept that men in the collective are superior to individuals with respect to political and moral rights. Hegel developed this theme by identifying that collective with The State, Marx picked it up from there, and we still hear echoes of this in the identity politics the Left is promoting so violently in the United States. I use the term “violently” precisely. One could, at first, lose one’s job and one’s head in France for espousing the ancient doctrines of the Church against the radicals; one can lose one’s job and one’s reputation today merely for expressing disbelief in the politics of protected classes and “social justice”, and that would be extended to murder if they thought they could get away with it and will when they can.
Why do I think Democrat squad when I read Jacobean club?
The American Revolution, a product of the English Enlightenment, was about man.
The French Revolution, a product of the French Enlightenment, was about men.
>They burned every Bible they co8uld get their hands on, killed every Catholic priest they could get their hands on, in the French Revolution.
The American Revolution, on the other hand, gave us freedom of religion, America being primarily Protestant, the rallying cry was “back to the Bible” on these shores.
The French Revolution marked the beginning of socialism. It marched across Europe to culminate in the Bolshevik Communist Revoluton...its crowning achievement.
Exactly.
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