All that endless reverence for Burke ought to have been a
clue.
From first to last, Burke opposed republicanism everywhere
in Europe and did all he could to support Britain’s endless wars against France
to restore the Bourbons and undo the revolution.
He preferred the ancien
regime, monarchy and aristocracy, lords temporal and spiritual.
To the point of supporting wars over it.
The 50k +/- people who were executed in the Terror might have shared his opinion, to say nothing of the millions(?) who died in the subsequent Napoleonic wars across Europe!
ReplyDeleteYou should blame those wars on the European monarchist reaction, not the Revolution. And are you really defending the ancien regime? Honestly?
DeleteIn comparison to 'The Terror' definitely. And the fact that, as so often, revolution leads to even greater tyranny then again - definitely.
ReplyDeleteEntirely due to the resistance of the arstos not only of France but of nearly all of Europe.
DeleteYou reason like a Confederate who says he supports slavery over emancipation because the later cost a Civil War.
But whose faulty was than?
The effrontery of the position is only an added offense.