The Sage of Main Street
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Marx, Lenin, and Mao Were All Born in the Lower Ranks of the Upper Class. So Was Napoleon.At times like these, when the atavistic nature of Leftists/Democrats becomes clear and evident, we need only look at history- where the idea of Left and Right began.
Jacobin mentality made the revolutionaries more savage and cruel than the king they replaced. Some 50,000 died in the Terror (1793-1794)
The French Revolution, under Robespierre interpreted violence as the ‘language’ that explained to the masses the ideals of the revolution. “If the spring of popular government in times of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror….Terror is nothing other than justice.” Robespierre speech, February 5, 1794.
For the first time in history terror became an official government policy, with the stated aim to use violence in order to achieve a higher political goal. Unlike the later meaning of 'terrorists' as people who use violence against a government, the terrorists of the French Revolution were the government. The Terror was legal, having been voted for by the Convention. Robespierre and the Terror | History Today
Sorel and every other advocate of the left, learned and understood this message.
Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…” http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpress...b2w4&chunk.id=d0e44&toc.depth=1&brand=ucpress
The view of murder, of taking another's life, for political gain is the thread from the French Revolution, to the Russian, Maoist, Pol Pot's, right to the strong faction of Democrats......and they have successful invaded education and the media with that view.
The French "Revolution" was the untitled but hereditary 2% using the 98% to kill off the hereditary 1%. Typical of a republic, the commoners had no other rights except to vote for which faction of the 2% would give them its butcher knives.
