Sir Edmund Burke Opposed the Mob Rule of French Revolution, the Type of Revolution BLM, Antifa, and Democrats Want Here

[Bush92]

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"The outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 gave Burke his greatest target. He expressed his hostility in 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790). The book provoked a huge response, including Thomas Paine's 'The Rights of Man'. Burke emphasised the dangers of mob rule, fearing that the Revolution's fervour was destroying French society. He appealed to the British virtues of continuity, tradition, rank and property and opposed the Revolution to the end of his life"
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[idb]

Mob rule wouldn't have happened if the French elites had been more responsive and empathetic to the people that they ruled over and hadn't let inequality get so extreme.

 

[Votto]

Essentially people rose up and started killing rich folk and looting their possessions. This was the revolution that was essentially Marxists. Then Napoleon took over.

That seems to be the trajectory of the US currently.

 

[Bush92]

Mob rule wouldn't have happened if the French elites had been more responsive and empathetic to the people that they ruled over and hadn't let inequality get so extreme.

The revolutionary extremist had no property and wanted to sieze the property of others. They also wanted to create an egalitarian state and then the guillotine operated daily and 200,000 were slaughtered by one form of violence or another.

 

[Bush92]

Essentially people rose up and started killing rich folk and looting their possessions. This was the revolution that was essentially Marxists. Then Napoleon took over.

That seems to be the trajectory of the US currently.

You are 100% correct.

 

[Votto]

Essentially people rose up and started killing rich folk and looting their possessions. This was the revolution that was essentially Marxists. Then Napoleon took over.

That seems to be the trajectory of the US currently.

You are 100% correct.

In comparison, the "rich" in the US just wanted their freedom and prompted the revolution.

Luckily, the populace was made of people seeking religious freedom, so they did not target anyone to murder like those in France did.

There are some of the basic reasons why the Left hates the US so much.

 

[idb]

Mob rule wouldn't have happened if the French elites had been more responsive and empathetic to the people that they ruled over and hadn't let inequality get so extreme.

The revolutionary extremist had no property and wanted to sieze the property of others. They also wanted to create an egalitarian state and then the guillotine operated daily and 200,000 were slaughtered by one form of violence or another.

They had no property...they wanted equality...they were told to eat cake.
Sounds horribly familiar...right down to the 200,000 dying...except that that happened before the revolution started.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

This is a fair representation of Edmund Burke’s philosophy, though presented by a Conservative on a Conservative website. The truth is, as it admits, Burke never directly debated with or refuted Thomas Paine, who went to considerable efforts — while sitting in a prison sentenced to death by guillotine in Paris no less — to challenge Burke’s conservatism.

Burke was more or less on the payroll of the British government at the time, just as earlier in his more revolutionary days he had been a paid lobbyist for American interests. Paine was always a dedicated revolutionary, when he fought for the American Revolution as when he fought for and supported (along with Lafayette and Jefferson) the French Revolution. And yet Paine also opposed Jacobin extremism in France … and almost paid for his principles with his life.

A short but worthy intro to this history is Christopher Hitchens’ little book, called “Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man.” It goes into the profound conflict between Enlightenment radical democrat & working-class revolutionary Thomas Paine and the famous British religious Conservative Edmund Burke.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

Here’s the jacket cover blurb on Hitchen’s little book:

“Thomas Paine was one of the greatest political propagandists in history. The Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's text is a passionate defense of the rights of man. Paine argued against monarchy and outlined the elements of a successful republic, including public education, pensions, and relief of the poor and unemployed, all financed by income tax.

“Since its publication, The Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, and suppressed. But here, commentator Christopher Hitchens, Paine's natural heir, marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Above all, he shows how Thomas Paine's Rights of Man forms the philosophical cornerstone of the world's most powerful republic: the United States of America.”