Friday, July 18, 2014

Viva la revolution?

“The French Revolution felt the impact of the American revolution, but misunderstood its message.

“In the face of a colonial oppressor the American founding fathers raised a flag reading ‘Don’t Tread on Me’; in the face of a thousand years of feudalism the French Revolution raised the guillotine. The Americans threw off their colonial ruler and proclaimed a constitutional republic; the French threw off the miasma of feudalism, and replaced it with the dead weight of dictatorship. The American inspiration was John Locke; the French was Rousseau. The American Revolution threw up Washington and Jefferson; the French threw up Robespierre and St Just.”

It’s Bastille Day!

http://www.pc.blogspot.co.uk/


(OK, so I'm a few days late.)

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