1381: Peasant's revolt results in anarchy and murder; 1650: military dictatorship after murdering the King - these were the results of the 'power to the people' movements and they were wholly and willfully ignored by later generations. The Rights of Man was a pipe-dream as exemplified by the British Empire which ruined Africa, the Middle East and Africa of which they have yet to recover. There WERE however certain benefits of modernization (as long as those who benefitted were the British Crown and aristocracy) but as for 'Rights' - the Crown & PM would say anything to anyone, promise anything to anyone (remember Turkey to go to Italy? remember Arab independence in exchange for fighting the ruling Turks?) then renege on their word and deny the most basic rights to Crown subjects as long as they made a buck.
Currently many modern "historians" are rightwing conservative revisionists historians. They abhor revolutions in general and perhaps the French Revolution above all. But they work very hard to disguise this. This video case in point. Notice how the author quotes from Edmund Burke's critic of the Revolution but not from Thomas Paine's defense of the Revolution. He just paraphrases it. Notice also how he jumps from saying Paine was visiting France to see for himself the Revolution, to Paine being imprisoned. There is a sequence of events which led to this. Thomas Paine was invited to France because of his defence of the Revolution to join the National Assembly even though he was not french, which was unprecedented. When he wrote this defence it was the one most popular works in his day (even though his view of the Revolution is the polar opposite of modern "historians") And during his period in the Assembly there was a purge of people who were thought to oppose the Revolution. The major European powers (including England where Paine came from) immediately started attacking the French Republic as soon as it appeared. So there was a lot of suspicion about counter revolutionaries. And he was mistakenly included in those imprisoned but was fortunately later released. This video gives the impression that people were just being picked out at random on the street and imprisoned. As for the violence of the Revolution Edmund Burke (which the Revisionists love to quote because his right wing conservative politics mirrors their own) made the same points. And Thomas Paine made a brilliant reply in his work which the Revisionists almost never quote. And that is the way to counter all the silly tricks of the revisionist historians. Read the work for yourself in a library. If you want to know about the English Civil War and Republic, read about it yourself and see whether it was a "military dictatorship". Read historians who use sources from both sides not just one side. Do not trust revisionist "historians" on You Tube or the comment section.
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1381: Peasant's revolt results in anarchy and murder; 1650: military dictatorship after murdering the King - these were the results of the 'power to the people' movements and they were wholly and willfully ignored by later generations. The Rights of Man was a pipe-dream as exemplified by the British Empire which ruined Africa, the Middle East and Africa of which they have yet to recover. There WERE however certain benefits of modernization (as long as those who benefitted were the British Crown and aristocracy) but as for 'Rights' - the Crown & PM would say anything to anyone, promise anything to anyone (remember Turkey to go to Italy? remember Arab independence in exchange for fighting the ruling Turks?) then renege on their word and deny the most basic rights to Crown subjects as long as they made a buck.
Currently many modern "historians" are rightwing conservative revisionists historians. They abhor revolutions in general and perhaps the French Revolution above all. But they work very hard to disguise this. This video case in point. Notice how the author quotes from Edmund Burke's critic of the Revolution but not from Thomas Paine's defense of the Revolution. He just paraphrases it. Notice also how he jumps from saying Paine was visiting France to see for himself the Revolution, to Paine being imprisoned. There is a sequence of events which led to this. Thomas Paine was invited to France because of his defence of the Revolution to join the National Assembly even though he was not french, which was unprecedented. When he wrote this defence it was the one most popular works in his day (even though his view of the Revolution is the polar opposite of modern "historians") And during his period in the Assembly there was a purge of people who were thought to oppose the Revolution. The major European powers (including England where Paine came from) immediately started attacking the French Republic as soon as it appeared. So there was a lot of suspicion about counter revolutionaries. And he was mistakenly included in those imprisoned but was fortunately later released. This video gives the impression that people were just being picked out at random on the street and imprisoned. As for the violence of the Revolution Edmund Burke (which the Revisionists love to quote because his right wing conservative politics mirrors their own) made the same points. And Thomas Paine made a brilliant reply in his work which the Revisionists almost never quote. And that is the way to counter all the silly tricks of the revisionist historians. Read the work for yourself in a library. If you want to know about the English Civil War and Republic, read about it yourself and see whether it was a "military dictatorship". Read historians who use sources from both sides not just one side. Do not trust revisionist "historians" on You Tube or the comment section.
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