On 2018-11-21 17:45, juan wrote:
uh oh. So let's make clear what "the right" means. As Jim B. pointed out, the left/right classification comes from the french revolution. What needs to be added is that the people who sat on "the right" of the assembly were the conservatives/monarchists/theocrats or representatives of the 'ancien regime'.
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:04:56 +1000 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
The ancient regime was theoretically absolute, and in an important sense was absolute, but could not conscript,
On 2018-11-22 16:56, juan wrote:
excetp, of course it could
Corvee was typically one day a week working on the fields or some such. Which is a lot less than I spend working for the government. The ancient regime did not and could not send a generation off to Russia to die.
except hyperinflation in france existed in the 18th century (that is almost 100 years before the revolution)
http://austrianeconomics.wikia.com/wiki/John_Law_inflation_in_France
There was the important difference that though John Law could inflate away the paper money in your pocket, he did not and could not try to force bakers to supply bread for worthless money, unlike Venezuela today and unlike Revolutionary France.
Which gave us science, technology, industrialization, and empire.
notice that's exactly what a 'progressive' socialist would say.
But that is because they, and you, lie. Progressives have destroyed science, and socialists' attempts at industrialization were second rate (reflect on soviet cars), relied on buying or stealing technology developed by capitalists (soviet cars and car factories were copied from the US under American engineers) and came at horrifying human cost.