Mad Rant: Roots of Revolution III

In terms of modern revolutionary republicanism we have seen the Bolsheviks set communism/socialism loose on the world in our own time and how all of their political roots trace back to the great horror of modern European history; the French Revolution. Yet, an argument can be made that the French Revolution would not have happened without the example of the American Revolution still so fresh in their minds. There is certainly some truth to this and it is certainly true that the American rebels would not have been successful without the support of the Kingdom of France. However, the French economy was in hard shape even before they broke the bank backing American separatists and the radical revolutionary elements in the American colonies were inspired by the philosophes of Europe; not the other way around. One could also make a strong case that the American War for Independence would not have happened had the British not won the earlier French and Indian War.

The Americans were driven by a growing strain of liberalism in their own English-speaking tradition which went back to the Revolution of 1688 when Parliament asserted dominance over the monarchy and hereditary succession, back to the English Civil War which saw the overthrow and regicide of King Charles the Martyr and even that act; putting a monarch on trial with the result of regicide, had already been done in England with the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. All of these were examples of chipping away at the sacred nature of the monarchy. And, just as some monarchs on the island of Britain were unwittingly complicit in this, so too were some French monarchs on the continent. What was it then that was finally at the root of this creeping disease that put it in the hearts of men to rise against traditional authority?

It was, of course, a combination of things on the part of monarchs and governments but at heart it was a spiritual disease. What was this sickness that saw itself manifested in Queen Elizabeth I having Mary Queen of Scots beheaded or King Louis XIV of France laughing off the pleas and warnings of St Margaret Marie Alacoque? It was overall a failure to recognize the dangerous venom that was revolution. A failure to recognize the true, eternal and global enemy of humanity. What exactly is it that causes “revolutionism” to flourish? What are the weapons used to lure people into the revolutionary camp? There were coups, changes of dynasty and changes of rule in the past that had not gone to the extent of revolutionary republicanism. So what was it, and what is it, essentially that has been driving this whole movement?

It is the evil which causes someone to look at a monarch and hate him because he is more exalted than they are. It is the evil which causes someone to desire for themselves the highest place and the arrogance to seize power to be the sole master of their own universe. In short, it is evil personified. It is the same evil which the Holy Prophet Isaiah spoke of when he quoted, “and thou didst say in thy heart, ‘I will exalt my throne above the stars of Heaven…I will ascend above the heights of the clouds and I will be like the All Highest”.

Yes, it is the same, exactly the same, the same disease that has been creeping through the world even before the dawn of existence. It is the coveting of power and position, the arrogance and the willful desire to bow to no one which caused a third of the stars to fall from the heavens. The same spirit which says everyone should be their own monarch and which had said to the ancestors of humanity, do this and ‘you will be like gods’. We see it manifested the revolutionary goals of today, lowering all of humanity to the level of the beasts, allowing no distinctions between subject and sovereign, between moral and immoral, between male and female even between humanity and the animals in extreme cases being enacted today.

And it is the same all over the world. The “Divine Sage” of the Far East, Confucius, spoke of harmony coming from the mastery of five relationships: emperor-subject, husband-wife, parents-children, older siblings-younger siblings and friend-friend. How many of these have been destroyed or are imperiled even today by the revolutionary movement? Monarchs are gone or under threat of extinction, husbands and wives can easily divorce or even have husbands and husbands and wives and wives. Children can divorce their parents as well and the revolutionary governments want to raise the little ones themselves. They want us to all be envious in order to tear down the established order but they also want us to all be the same, a uniform, cultureless, tradition-less population of sheep, fuel for their own system, mindless, nameless automatons who will serve the all powerful government and think no more of ourselves than they do; so many vermin to run in place, spinning the wheels that keep the government machine running.

This is the “big picture”, this is the enemy, the root of the evil that has been bedeviling humanity since the dawn of time and continues to weave its insidious web to this very day. It’s all part of the same thing. The same trends, the same themes, the same goals then as now. That is the way I see it, that is why I support who I do and oppose who I do and that is the end of this little 3-part rant. And, I am, as ever, The Mad Monarchist.

Mad Rant: Roots of Revolution II

The revolutions that have shook the world in the 20th Century were spawned by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917. However, they took their inspiration for earlier examples which were, fortunately, less successful. Why, for example, was the red flag the adopted color of the revolutionaries and why did Bolshevik bands play the Marseillaise? That is because all of the republican elements, and revolutionary communists particularly, of the early 20th Century waxed nostalgic for the bloody failure that was the Paris Commune of 1871. This was the most famous of the revolutionary communes that sprang up following the overthrow of the French Emperor Napoleon III after his defeat at the hands of the Prussians. The commune has assumed epic status amongst the revolutionary enemies of civilization who are fixed in a sort of trance by it for no one could reasonably explain any attraction to it. It was an epic failure and Paris under the commune was a picture of suffering, brought down suddenly and swiftly by Prussian bayonets.

This would probably not have been the case had not the mob of Paris already acquired something of a reputation for the bloody overthrow of governments. The communards (communists -it’s not a huge leap) looked back to the revolutions of 1848 that shook the traditional order of Europe. However, these were a disjointed and largely unsuccessful series of national uprisings who were themselves all born out of the satanic womb that was the French Revolution and there we see the head of the snake that later manifested itself as communism, socialism or radical, revolutionary republicanism of any other name. The French Revolution was the culmination of a rising tide of liberalism that had been coming to a head in the 18th Century. It rode in on a wave of growing skepticism against religion and monarchy and an increased arrogance on the part of humanity. They rejected moral absolutes and traditional authority, especially when based on religion and hereditary monarchy.

One need only to look to the actions of the French Revolutionaries to see how their venom has infected subsequent generations down to the present day. They began with seemingly innocent calls for democracy and then swiftly passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy to bring religion under government control (notice that this is almost invariably the first thing on the agenda of any revolutionary program). The monarchy was no longer treated with respect, then stripped of most powers, then stripped of all powers and then finally abolished. This same program is repeated every time communist/socialist elements attain power at varying speeds depending on how swiftly they think they can get away with doing it. Do we not see this even today? It is happening in the vast majority of the world’s remaining monarchies right now. Finally, they persecute those who are opposed to their radical ideology; those who are not “politically correct”. They wish to remake society on some artificial model and produce the most bloodthirsty monsters who think nothing of massacring their own people to accomplish these goals and secure their own grip on power. It is the same story whether the person in question is Marat or Mao. They will abolition religion altogether and replace it with a state religion to worship the revolution. It was done in Red China, Soviet Russia and it was done first in revolutionary France. They were not the first, however, to think the unthinkable nor was their wickedness born in a vacuum.

Mad Rant: Roots of Revolution I

The roots of revolutionary republicanism run deep. Like a plague engulfing the world they have spread their poison from one outbreak to infect nations across the globe and each out break can be traced back to a point of origin that itself can be traced back over vast amounts of time and distance. The most recent outbreak that has infected modern times and continues to spread its poison around the world began in Russia with the overthrow of the Russian Empire by the Bolsheviks and the subsequent creation of the Soviet Union.

One of the first major mistakes people make is to assume that communism and socialism are two different things when in fact they are both simply different stages in the evolution of the revolutionary program. Not everyone might be aware of just how communist many countries today, even monarchies, are which claim to be “merely” socialist rather than communists. How many are aware that it was the Bolsheviks who first legalized homosexuality and gay “marriage”? The supposedly tame socialist parties have been pushing this same agenda across Europe in many monarchies. It was also the Bolsheviks who first pledged to “liberate” women from their traditional roles of being wives and mothers. Sound familiar? They have always been the avowed enemies of tradition; particularly traditional authority as represented by monarchy and religion. And, they are internationalists.

From Soviet Russia and the regicide of Tsar Nicholas II the Bolsheviks spread into Mongolia and saw the overthrow of the Bogd Khan. Next, China, where even though the monarchy had been officially gone for several years it was a communist warlord who expelled the last Emperor from the Forbidden City in 1924. After World War II the communists had their big chance and extended their rule on all fronts which meant the end of the Kings of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania as well as the consolidation of communist rule in China. They took northern Korea, overthrew the last Emperor of Vietnam and eventually expanded across the whole of that country as well as Laos, Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique and Cuba.

However, if anyone thinks that the end of the “Cold War” meant the end of the communist threat they are sorely mistaken. Their campaign continues to this day, and often successfully, under the guise of the many socialist governments that hold power across a far more vast collection of nations that the communist Soviets or Maoists ever could. They have pushed the same agenda everywhere and it all points in the same revolutionary direction; redistribution of wealth which is inherently at odds with the very principle of a hierarchical society and inherited rights. Even in socialist societies that have retained their monarchies they have been reduced to powerless figureheads, still of symbolic importance and even then the efforts to remove them never cease. That is because each side represents something inherently in conflict with the other. As the socialists push their agenda traditional values are destroyed, the monarch is made powerless, respect for the monarchy is reduced further and further until they are removed altogether. This is why there is no country in the world in which monarchists can afford to be complacent no matter how outwardly stable things seem to be.