On November 1, 1790, Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France, predicting that the French Revolution would end in disaster. Though many have disputed his premises and reasoning, few dispute his prophecy, which proved spot on.
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Only during your lifetime did the mainstream of the French left begin acknowledging that the egalitarian technocratic phase of the French Revolution had been largely a moral disaster. And, now-a-days, we can find many college-indoctrinated Americans who would defend that phase.