He really detested Christianity.
I was most interested in his writings first cheering on the french revolution, then later utterly horrified at the result. That’s the fruit and endgame of such godless philosophy, predecessor of stalinism and so on
The French Revolution began as a Peoples’ movement. It then became what ALL revolutions become...a Fascist tyranny. (The jury is out right now on America.)
Napoleon I, as First Counsel and then as Emperor of the French, got, wielded and abused more absolute power than any Bourbon monarch EVER dreamed of.
It the classic, textbook blueprint on how radical populism devolves...beginning with impossibly idealistic and narcissistic prigs like Robespierre and ending with selfish, drunk-on-power megalomaniacs like Napoleon I. Oceans of blood have not diminished the horror of what these monsters visited upon humanity.
Radical populism, advocating the welfare of the ‘People’ (always with a capital “P”) and any demagogue hawking this drivel ought ALWAYS and EVER to be avoided like poison. (Sound like anyone we know?). The welfare of the ‘people’ is their least concern. Beware!!!
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. “ Albert Camus