This video tries to contextualize Edmund Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France, in which he argues against the French Revolution as a destructive phenomenon. I am a bit more anti-Burke here than I maybe would like to be, but I find it really problematic that he ignores the historical causes of the Revolution in favor of pretending that the autocracy of French Absolutism was the benign and happy chivalric paradise he paints in the Reflections. Burke says nothing of starving peasants, political oppression, and so on, but imagines the Revolutionaries as this dirty, violent, insane mob who come out of nowhere to destroy an ancien regime in which everyone was happy.


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