The place is a far right extremist journal that wishes to redefine the political and historical terms of Western culture. The above is an excellent example of it. Here is the front plant from its web site.
The Harvard Salient is a fortnightly journal of political thought. Naturally conservative but free from political allegiances, the Salient was founded in 1981 by Harvard students who sought to provide a journalistic alternative to a predominantly liberal campus press. Opportunities abound for writers, artists, photographers, production assistants, and advertising salesmen. The Salient's goal is to return to the Harvard campus, through thoughtful discourse, the ancient principles underpinning Western civilization: tradition, family, property, and respect for ordered liberty.
Harvard Salient
"The Myth" itself is a myth, but that is obvious. What is nice is that Harvard has its own extremist right wing voice. Good. No more carping about a left dominated educational and university universe.
The real point is that German conservatism, as a philosophy, of course adhered to legitimacy and traditional institutions, but the fact remains that conservatives and their parties and the corporations belied all that and supported Hitler.
The real point is that Romney and the mainstream Republican Party rejects the politics and philosophy of the far extremist right of political and cultural America. Our difference with German conservatism is that we won't let extremist reactionary right wing perversion corrupt the party.
Starkey stop bagging on people. You already said Nazis were socialists.....then you make the play that facism is right wing, because it;s conservative? I dont think he was that conservative.
you say leftwing politics has nothing to do with Marxism
you said the French Revolution didnt have communists
and I'm still waiting for your take on the left wing and what and who the "Rational" left are
But you say nothing, because you have nothing
I said Hitler killed the socialists in his party, so stop the typical right wing extremist lie.
Ok so Hitler was left wing for 14 years, then suddenly, he switched to right wing. I dont think so.
Fascism can be both right and left, Hitler's was right wing, and no one cares what you think.
Thank you, atleast you admit it can be left
I said the French Revolution was about the monarchy not economics.
Dumbass it was at first, they killed the king in 1792 and most of the high level aristocrats, BEFORE the Reign of Terror, Marx loved it so much he replicated the Paris commune (hint first one started in 1792 with the Jacobians) and why change the calander? You really dont know shit about the Revolution at all.
Principal Dates and Time Line of the French Revolution
Second phase: Henceforth the struggle is between bourgeois and proletariat, rather than nobility and bourgeoisie. I WIN *****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1st September 1792: General mobilisation, citizens sent to the front.
2nd September 1792: Danton instigates the massacre of about 1,200 Royalists held in Parisian prisons.
20th September 1792: French forces defeat the invading force at Valmy. Henceforth the Revolution would enjoy victory in its military conflicts.
21st September 1792: The Convention elected by the Legislative Assembly commences, abolishes monarchy; day one of the Republican Calendar.
19th November 1792: “Edict of Fraternity” offers aid to “subject peoples.”
11th December 1792: Trial of the king begins.
21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed.
1st February 1793: France declares war on Britain and Holland.
25th February 1793: Food riots in Paris.
6th April 1793: Committee of Public Safety established.
24th April 1793: Marat put on trial for complicity in September massacre but is acquitted.
4th May 1793: Maximum price of bread imposed.
27th May 1793: Uprising of Paris Commune against the Convention
2nd June 1793: Expulsion of the Girondists (the party of compromise) from all offices. The Commune of Paris becomes the centre of power.
24th June 1793: Jacobin Constitution accepted by the Convention.
13th July 1793: Marat, “the people’s friend,” murdered by Charlotte Corday.
17th July 1793: Corday executed amid popular outrage.
1st August 1793: Metric system of measures adopted.
23rd August 1793: Levée en masse (conscription) decreed.
4-5th September 1793: Popular riots in Paris.
17th September 1793: “Law of Suspects” initiates the Terror.
14th October 1793: Marie-Antoinette tried and executed.
23rd October 1793: Republican Calendar decreed.
24th October 1793: 22 Girondists tried and executed.
10th November 1793: Festival of Liberty and Reason.
24th March 1794: Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator.
18th May 1794: Robespierre decreed the new religion of the Supreme Being.
8th June 1794: The day of inauguration of the Supreme Being.
10th June 1794: (22 Prairial) procedures for mass trial and execution implemented. Victims will go to the guillotine now in batches of 50 or 60 at a time. An estimated 2,750 are executed of whom the great majority are poor.
27th July 1794: (9th Thermidor) Convention calls for arrest of Robespierre. Robespierre attempts insurrection which flops, is arrested and executed. After about 150 of his supporters are done away with, the Terror is over.
You made all the silly statements about the Left without qualifying Who was What. That is your affirmative statement and I have no obligation to pull you out of your swamp.
