PoliticalChic
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To be fair, he could be called the first Communist, the first Progressive, the first Collectivist....the first ANTIFA
Look at the riots in our streets, and thank......
Jean-Jacques Rousseau...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
“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”
Rousseau's thinking led to the century of slaughter: 18th century….meet the 20th century!
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
The life and career of one of the most vilified men in history.
www.historytoday.com
The evil of competition, as he saw it, which destroys man’s inborn communal sense and encourages all his most evil traits, including his desire to exploit others, led Rousseau to distrust private property, as the source of social crime.” Johnson, Op. Cit.
There you have it: the curse of civilization is private property, ownership, material inequality.
The only difference between Rousseau and the Democrat rioters today, is he never said "kill whitey!!!"
Look at the riots in our streets, and thank......
Jean-Jacques Rousseau...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
“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”
Rousseau's thinking led to the century of slaughter: 18th century….meet the 20th century!
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
The life and career of one of the most vilified men in history.
www.historytoday.com
The evil of competition, as he saw it, which destroys man’s inborn communal sense and encourages all his most evil traits, including his desire to exploit others, led Rousseau to distrust private property, as the source of social crime.” Johnson, Op. Cit.
There you have it: the curse of civilization is private property, ownership, material inequality.
The only difference between Rousseau and the Democrat rioters today, is he never said "kill whitey!!!"