Maximilien Robespierre person
also: Robespierre, Maximilian Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre
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Maximilien Robespierre member_of
Committee of Public Safety documented
“references here is he was an appointed member of the Committee of Public Safety. Indeed. And isn't it interesting that the USAID had the Office of Public Safety, which is the entity that set up all the black site prisons and taught people h…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 59:34
Maximilien Robespierre member_of
Jacobins documented
“He also started a church. And I'm going to get to that here in a second. Okay. If I can find it again. Let's go to the French Revolution. That'll come up. So he was a Jacobin. Jacobins were very extreme Republicans, meaning not Republicans.…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 1:00:07
Maximilien Robespierre headed
Committee of Public Safety documented
“This is what violent revolution now means. They demonstrated the French Revolution. From 1793 to 1794, you have what's called the Reign of Terror, where the Committee of Public Safety, led by Robespierre, killed somewhere around 40,000, dep…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 1:03:34
Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
Maximilien Robespierre host_asserted
“He doesn't talk about this general will. Who creates it? Who interprets what the general will is? It's a bit of a problem. They do. Of course, they do. He had a big influence on Robespierre, a lot of the Romantics, Immanuel Kant's Moral Aut…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 15:11
Cult of the Supreme Being founded
Maximilien Robespierre host_asserted
“Robespierre, who's a deist influenced by Rousseau's ideas of civil religion and the general will, believed that belief in a higher power was essential for public morality and republican stability. Here's the beliefs. The French people recog…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 1:05:32
Jean-Jacques Rousseau influenced
Maximilien Robespierre host_asserted
“conceptual bridges to later idealist and collectivist developments. Kant was very similar to Locke. His ideas were then borrowed and twisted by both sides of this. I don't want to go into too much detail on Kant because there's another guy …”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 57:01
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▶ 15:11
He doesn't talk about this general will. Who creates it? Who interprets what the general will is? It's a bit of a problem. They do. Of course, they do. He had a big influence on Robespierre, a lot of the Romantics, Immanuel Kant's Moral Aut…
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conceptual bridges to later idealist and collectivist developments. Kant was very similar to Locke. His ideas were then borrowed and twisted by both sides of this. I don't want to go into too much detail on Kant because there's another guy …
▶ 57:35
Rousseau in thought. Oh, dang. Born 1758, lived to 1794. Boy, that was at a very long age. Well, it's because he got his head taken off by a guillotine. I'm like, he died pretty young for these philosophers who lived the life of Riley and t…
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and the quote-unquote reign of terror from 1793 to 94. he embodied the practical application of russoian ideals of virtue popular sovereignty and the general will remember what i said about general welfare yep who determines it who person's…
▶ 58:35
Robespierre is often seen as the archetype of the ideologue who justifies extreme means or terror for utopian ends, a republic of virtue. Sure. I'll just go through a couple of his quotes. The government in a revolution is the deputism of l…
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. Well, I can agree with that. Anyway, he's basically by any means necessary kind of guy. Most of your communist wannabes, he would be …
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references here is he was an appointed member of the Committee of Public Safety. Indeed. And isn't it interesting that the USAID had the Office of Public Safety, which is the entity that set up all the black site prisons and taught people h…
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You had external internal pressures caused a spiral. You had war, economic chaos, inflation, food shortages, counter-revolutionary revolts, and royalist entries create paranoia. 1792 in August, you had the storming of the Tuileries. The mon…
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This is what violent revolution now means. They demonstrated the French Revolution. From 1793 to 1794, you have what's called the Reign of Terror, where the Committee of Public Safety, led by Robespierre, killed somewhere around 40,000, dep…
▶ 1:05:32
Robespierre, who's a deist influenced by Rousseau's ideas of civil religion and the general will, believed that belief in a higher power was essential for public morality and republican stability. Here's the beliefs. The French people recog…
▶ 1:06:01
which is detesting bad faith and tyranny, punishing traitors, and caring for the unfortunate, defending the oppressed, and doing good to others. It emphasized reason, nature, and virtue of a revelation, priest, or superstition. And it was p…
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Yeah, what is it? Get bit by the hand of Fiji or something like that? Anyway. Die by the sword. But it's really important that the example of Robespierre was what the Fabians wanted to avoid. Because the French Revolution was horrible. They…