Did we all fall for French Revolution meme? Holy shit it was utterly awful. I'm reading Leftism Revisited and K-L is talking about all the horrors of the French Revolution and is citing the fuck outta that shit. Is this what was done for democracy? I watched a video really saying that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were actually pretty good royalty and Louis XVI was a good king.
So what are good books that discuss why the French Revolution was unwarranted?
book about the evils of the revolution?
book about Louis XVI as a king prior to the revolution?
The French Revolution was an unending string of atrocities and anybody who argues otherwise is not worth listening to.
However, reactionaries who praise the ancien regime are being dumbasses. The situation for the commoners in France had been extremely fucked up for a long time, there are various perspectives on this and what the causes were, but it's a fact that France had especially archaic social constitution combined with extremely radical intellectual movements, so something was going to give.
Jayden Gutierrez
Citizens by Schama or Carlyle's history, and maybe the black jacobins.
This is dry unreadable shit written before the terror, mainly complaining correctly about ideology run amok without deference for stability, and also certain gentlemans clubs who were supporting the tennis court oath. Just read a good biography on burke.
Anyways
>Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were good royalty Good monarchs dont have total collapses of credit, or spend their time in the tower fixing fucking clocks, or flee the country or have foreign troops do battle with their own citizens. Louis was intransigent early and thought he could role the revolution, but he was legit autistic and it flopped. Antoinette was a roasty par excellance. Not to mention that the leftism that Burke hates is essentially classical liberalism, or pre-reagan american conservatism, since it happened before the ascension of the Jacobin club. Reminder that it wasnt just ideology. You had to pay a tax on every single fucking commodity, and there were customs checkpoints in every neighborhood in paris. The state was squeezing and people reacted, and there were some bad fuckin harvests too >Democracy This was not what they were seeking, they wanted a constitution and better financial management and respect for the french legislature on the english model >Horrors of the revolution pretty tame compared to 20th century utopian terror
Dylan Smith
nah dude, kings are gay
Mason Morgan
It was the greatest movement in human liberty but at the cost of many lives. Too bad such a monumental period is tainted with such atrocities.
William Fisher
Burke's prose is great. The book's not even particularly long.
I studied it in school, and read it independently. Its dry as fuck (random page included), and since user seems to be a fairly stupid 17 year old kekistani i doubt he will be reading in depth and looking for parallels with communism like a good modern center-right type. Im not criticizing his genius, or his thought process, but as far as reflections goes, its not accessible (i think his work on the sublime is far more palatable desu)
