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Burke's View of the French Revolution
The French Revolution has several phases not all of them violent. One of the questions I have is really around how slowly that process unfolds but himself ceases to be an MP in 1794 he's dead by 1797. So broadly speaking I think what Burke saw was that a revolution against the state meant collapsing its institutions, putting them up as a matter for contestation and dispute amongst emerging rival factions. The ending of a civil war was going to involve a reversion to authoritarianism so these things did come to pass. Of course Burke didn't live to 1815 or 1830 but there is no stability at that point anyway because there's a restoration and then another restoration.
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