Posted on 07/14/2015 10:33:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 07/14/2015 10:47:27 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
One of the most dramatic events in French history was the storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789. This event is now viewed as the spark which set off the French Revolution.
This singular event is a public holiday in France:
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For all the viciousness of the revolution, they were still better off for having destroyed the monarchy. And that monarchy was a representative of Rome essentially, so they really got far away from all the people who claimed a right to rule.
Plus did not France sent folks over to America to help in the Revolutionary war?
“Up there with the Holocaust and the Russian and Chinese Communist takeovers in terms of cruelty and barbarism.’
Oh come on. You’re not giving Robespierre and company enough credit. Naziism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, and the Democratic party are manifestations of the French Revolution.
A day to celebrate the theft of some fish?
We must have a real lack of understanding in this country.
It was.
Heck, forget China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, there’s also the fact that even Karl friggin’ Marx himself specifically cited the French Revolution, specifically Robespierre’s Reign of Terror, was not only the aim of Communism when he wrote the theory, but he intended to make it even MORE of a bloodbath than even that sordid event. If China, Vietnam and Cambodia are the grandchildren of the result of Bastille Day, then Karl Marx’s philosophies are the children of that same result.
A huge number of the Communist party members who influenced the cultural revolution were FOREIGN STUDENTS in France.
Yeah, I know. I was just saying that even before that time, the French Revolution was literally encoded into communism’s DNA since Karl Marx founded it (as a matter of fact, before Lenin declared War Communism, he and his Bolsheviks attempted to implement “Monumental Propaganda” modeled after infamous figures of the French Revolution).
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