The French Revolutionaries Committed the First Modern Genocide

Chapter 5.7: The War in the Vendée and other whitewashed leftist atrocities

Why this book | Title Page | Table of Contents
Preface | Introduction
PART 1
Chapter 1 (1.1) (1.2) | Chapter 2 (2.1) (2.2) (2.3) | Chapter 3 (3.1) (3.2) (3.3) (3.4) (3.5) (3.6)
PART 2
Chapter 4 (4.1) (4.2) (4.3) (4.4) (4.5) | Chapter 5 (5.1) (5.2) (5.3) (5.4) (5.5) (5.6) (5.7) | Chapter 6
PART 3
Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14
PART 4
Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 |
PART 5
Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Conclusion
Appendix | Works Cited

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5.7
Metrics of calumny

• Authoritarian oppression, cont’d

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Addressing the vision of “the right” handed down to us by the French revolutionaries is a bit more challenging—not because there is much merit to it, but because it’s like fighting a bugbear made of mist. The enemy the revolutionaries fought against (writ large, the ancien régime) had not yet disappeared from the scene, but its disappearance had already been set in motion. Their definition of “the right,” while not anachronistic at that moment, would very soon become so.

Where is this “right” today? Where are the monarchists, the theocrats, and the supporters of a return to ancient feudal privilege?

Many modern conservatives in the West are religious, but very few of them would consider imposing a theocracy. They may like a little more law and order, but not the kind of order preferred by Nazis, communists, or absolute monarchs. They are more comfortable with material inequality, but none would be comfortable with a return to an enforced hereditary inequality.

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