....instead of indoctrination, you'd have been taught that the French Revolution was the origin of every totalitarian institution.
It was the model for both the Russian Revolution, and Mao's version.
1. Which brings me to today's birthday boy...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France), Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation. Britannica.com
2. Rousseau's ideas, and those of the French Revolution, are the same incorporated in those of communism, Nazism, Socialism, Progressivism, Fascism....and those of the current Democrat Party.
It is society that is responsible for the ills of this world.
Private property must be abolished.
The state must raise all children.
Those who do not agree with the general will, must be treated as wild animals.
Terror becomes government policy.
Rousseau despised Christianity, and favored a civic religion....very much the Militant Secularism of Liberals today.
3. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the most influential of them all. Older men like Voltaire had started the work of demolishing the altars and enthroning reason. But Rousseau was the first to combine all the salient characteristics of the modern Promethean: the assertion of his right to reject the existing order in its entirety…[the central motive of every Leftist view]
In both the long and the short term his influence was enormous. In the generation after his death, it attained the status of a myth. He died a decade before the French Revolution of 1789 but many contemporaries held him responsible for it…
…over a far longer span of time, Rousseau altered some of the basic assumptions of civilized man and shifted around the furniture of the human mind.”
Johnson, “Intellectuals”
4. " If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety").
This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies."
French Revolution - Robespierre and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror
5. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920
Government and the collective over private property and individual God-given rights!
It was the model for both the Russian Revolution, and Mao's version.
1. Which brings me to today's birthday boy...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France), Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation. Britannica.com
2. Rousseau's ideas, and those of the French Revolution, are the same incorporated in those of communism, Nazism, Socialism, Progressivism, Fascism....and those of the current Democrat Party.
It is society that is responsible for the ills of this world.
Private property must be abolished.
The state must raise all children.
Those who do not agree with the general will, must be treated as wild animals.
Terror becomes government policy.
Rousseau despised Christianity, and favored a civic religion....very much the Militant Secularism of Liberals today.
3. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the most influential of them all. Older men like Voltaire had started the work of demolishing the altars and enthroning reason. But Rousseau was the first to combine all the salient characteristics of the modern Promethean: the assertion of his right to reject the existing order in its entirety…[the central motive of every Leftist view]
In both the long and the short term his influence was enormous. In the generation after his death, it attained the status of a myth. He died a decade before the French Revolution of 1789 but many contemporaries held him responsible for it…
…over a far longer span of time, Rousseau altered some of the basic assumptions of civilized man and shifted around the furniture of the human mind.”
Johnson, “Intellectuals”
4. " If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety").
This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies."
French Revolution - Robespierre and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror
5. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920
Government and the collective over private property and individual God-given rights!