In the later chapters of Barnaby Rudge, D repeatedly portrays the rioters as violent, murderous criminals bent more on limitless destruction and anarchy than any real political goal.
Their actions repeatedly stem from hatred of the authorities and the haves - however little or much they have - , and it is these latter, persons with property, who have his undivided and wholly unabashed sympathy and loyalty.
Along with defenders of property, order, and authority.
Dickens a socialist?
Not on your life.
Which is not at all to deny his endless, heartfelt, and sincere sympathy for the deserving poor or his support for both private charity and state action aimed at relief within the context of a wholly undisturbed capitalism.
Who was it, which converted red, wrote that the entire red plague of the 20th Century was based on blind hatred of the bourgeoisie?
Oh, yes.
Francois Furet.
Though he was certainly not alone in that.
Of course, that plague was over by 1990.
A whole generation of adults was born and came to maturity after that.
Their actions repeatedly stem from hatred of the authorities and the haves - however little or much they have - , and it is these latter, persons with property, who have his undivided and wholly unabashed sympathy and loyalty.
Along with defenders of property, order, and authority.
Dickens a socialist?
Not on your life.
Which is not at all to deny his endless, heartfelt, and sincere sympathy for the deserving poor or his support for both private charity and state action aimed at relief within the context of a wholly undisturbed capitalism.
Who was it, which converted red, wrote that the entire red plague of the 20th Century was based on blind hatred of the bourgeoisie?
Oh, yes.
Francois Furet.
Though he was certainly not alone in that.
Of course, that plague was over by 1990.
A whole generation of adults was born and came to maturity after that.
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