anne halonium said:

america, ceased to be any fun after the civil war.

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handwaveee said:

so non black culture don't have macho alpha/beta male stuff?

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Nice straw man tactic

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handwaveee said:

really the history of the United States Of America is revolt against the ALPHA FEMALES.

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lines said:

The French revolution seemed like a genocide to me because according to what I read aristocratic families tended to be Frankish, but not all Frankish people in France were/are aristocrats... There are many working class franks too. And much of the revolutionaries were Gauls i think. Correct me if i am wrong. But it seemed like a sort of race war.

I think France is majority gaul and minority frank. My guess. Im really not an expert on the ethnic history of france so these are just guesswork ...

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Two great currents prepared and made the French Revolution. One of them, the current of ideas, concerning the political reorganisation of States, came from the middle classes; the other, the current of action, came from the people, both peasants. and workers in towns, who wanted to obtain immediate and definite improvements in their economic condition. And when these two currents met and joined in the endeavour to realise an aim. wllich for some time was common to both, when they had helped each other for a certain time, the result was the Revolution.
The eighteenth-century philosophers had long been sapping the foundations of the law-and-order societies of that period, wherein political power, as well as an immense share of the wealth belonged to the aristocracy and the clergy, whilst the mass of the people were nothing but beasts of burden to the ruling classes. By proclaiming the sovereignty of reason; by preaching trust in human nature — corrupted, they declared, by the institutions that had reduced man to servitude, but, nevertheless, certain to regain all its qualities when it had reconqured liberty — they had opened up new vistas to mankind. By proclaiming equality among men, without distinction of birth; by demanding from every citizen, whether king or peasant, obedience to the law, supposed to express the will of the nation when it has been made by the representativesof the people; finally, by demanding freedom of contract between free men, and the abolition of feudal taxes and services — by putting forward all these claims, linked together with the system and method characteristic of French thought, the philosophers had undoubtedly prepared, at least in men’s minds, the downfall of the old*régime.



The Great French Revolution 1789?1793 (Pëtr Kropotkin) |

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