Re: English and French revolutions

[Chris Brady <chris_brady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The idiosyncracies of time & place are the bread & butter of
professional historians. Yes they were different but there were
similarities between the three revolutions that James mentioned, the
English, French, and Russian, respectively. The Puritans did assault the
Church of England, and they did decapitate the monarch. Invocations to
one's common fellows became more universal as the revolutions proceeded
in their respective epochs, i.e., English to fellow Englishmen, French
to fellow men, Russian to fellow humans. In all there was a swing back
of the pendulum, and a clogging of democratic process in pettifoggery
(reactionary bureaucratism, etc.).  We can only prepare for the future
revolution by studying past revolutions, and maybe we can find a way
to secure the benefits of a world "in which the free development of each
is the condition for the free development of all."

YFTR,
Chris Brady