History leaves the French socialists behind By James P. Pinkerton
'Finally, a revolution in France that I approve of!"
That was Edmund Burke, reacting happily to the election of conservative Nicolas Sarkozy as the new French president.
Burke looked and sounded pretty chipper, considering that he's been dead for 210 years. OK, I'm not sure I was really talking to Burke. But I felt his spirit, knowing he would be delighted to see the French socialists defeated once again.
Those socialists, of course, are the inheritors of the 1789 Revolution that Burke so eloquently opposed. In 1790, the Anglo-Irishman wrote a small book, "Reflections on the Revolution in France," which has become a classic. In its pages, he defended the "ancient principles" of society and tradition against the iconoclastic radicalism of Robespierre and his Marie Antoinette-guillotining Jacobins.
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