"Why did Edmund Burke call the French Revolution..." Topic
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Tango01  | 11 Jun 2024 5:04 p.m. PST |
… A DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION?
"Democracy's fiercest opponents are responsible for its revival as a modern idea. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France,[1] in the autumn of 1790, Edmund Burke declared that the French Revolution was bringing democracy back for modern times. For Burke, this was an alarming development. He called this "new democracy"(71) a "monstrous tragicomic scene"(9) – monstrous because it was deforming the body politic, tragicomic because in its attempts to establish democracy it was undermining democracy's own principles…"
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 The Virtual Armchair General  | 12 Jun 2024 11:40 a.m. PST |
Or, rather, a "Democratic Republic," as the US is. But I think that phrase has lost its value due to its hypocritical use by one-party dictatorships, most commonly of the notionally "Communist" states. Otherwise, couldn't agree more! TVAG |
| Tango01 | 12 Jun 2024 3:58 p.m. PST |
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