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>It seems to me more that the people were grabbing on to some Enlightenment ideas, and were willing to implement them over the dead bodies (sometimes literally)
by frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
>It seems to me more that the people were grabbing on to some Enlightenment ideas, and were willing to implement them over the dead bodies (sometimes literally) of the political system.
What makes this seem true to you?
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoThe times those ideas were implemented were often revolutions. Certainly the American and French Revolutions, but also the revolutions of 1848. One could argue that England didn't have that, and still wound up with Enlightenment ideas changing their political system. That's true (though the American Revolution was certainly an impact on England). But for almost everywhere else, it seems that there was at least one revolution along the way.