Friday, July 31, 2020

would i have supported the american revolution?

no, i probably wouldn't have.

the american revolution is a little more complicated to me than the french revolution, which i would have supported very strongly (i may have even written a book tearing down edmund burke). i suspect i would have found myself in canada fairly quickly, but i can't say for sure; it may have depended a lot on what class i found myself born into.

france & russia are no brainers, for me, though - i would have been fully in support of all of the death and all of the carnage, as necessary to overthrow the ancien regime.