On 2018-11-21 17:45, juan wrote:
uh oh. So let's make clear what "the right" means. As Jim B. pointed out, the
left/right classification comes from the french revolution. What needs to be added is that the
people who sat on "the right" of the assembly were the
conservatives/monarchists/theocrats or representatives of the 'ancien regime'.
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:04:56 +1000
> [email protected] wrote:
The ancient regime was theoretically absolute, and in an important sense
was absolute, but could not conscript,
On 2018-11-22 16:56, juan wrote:
excetp, of course it could
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e
Corvee was typically one day a week working on the fields or some such.
Which is a lot less than I spend working for the government. The
ancient regime did not and could not send a generation off to Russia to die.
except hyperinflation in france existed in the 18th century (that is
almost 100 years before the revolution)
http://austrianeconomics.wikia.com/wiki/John_Law_inflation_in_France
There was the important difference that though John Law could inflate
away the paper money in your pocket, he did not and could not try to
force bakers to supply bread for worthless money, unlike Venezuela today
and unlike Revolutionary France.
Which gave us science, technology, industrialization, and empire.
notice that's exactly what a 'progressive' socialist would say.
But that is because they, and you, lie.
Progressives have destroyed science, and socialists' attempts at
industrialization were second rate (reflect on soviet cars), relied on
buying or stealing technology developed by capitalists (soviet cars and
car factories were copied from the US under American engineers) and came
at horrifying human cost.
