[Mind-numbed Robot]

I hope for the sake of his own credibility he means the one that happened in 1848.

Why certainly he is. That is also the year that Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto" was first published.

[NutCrackerBoy]

During the French Revolution the Left created the socialist and communist movements... -David Horowitz

I hope for the sake of his own credibility he means the one that happened in 1848. -rightwinggoth

Why certainly he is. That is also the year that Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto" was first published.

Unless otherwise clarified, I think French Revolution denotes what happened in 1792-1794 - the latter event is named Revolution of 1848. Because of this, and his specific mention of Robespierre and the Jacobins, I believe Horowitz meant the original one. But I am not quite sure, because it seems he would have been more clear that he was speaking of the genealogy of the socialist and communist movements.

Great piece, though. Horowitz is really hitting his stride.