15/07/2024 / Boris Cvek
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So after a while I listened to Marseillaise once more. France had a nationwide vacation on Sunday and the Marseillaise is its nationwide anthem. A music a couple of bloody warfare in opposition to tyrants.
I do not wish to defend the monarchy, I do not even like at this time’s British fossil monarchy or the opposite European fossils, though it’s now not about monarchies, however about democracies. Nonetheless, Louis XVI was not precisely a tyrant by at this time’s requirements.
That’s, by the requirements of the twentieth century, even at this time’s requirements. Ludvík didn’t know learn how to cope with the ability of the courts, referred to as parliaments, and above all he needed to reckon with the highly effective public opinion of maybe probably the most educated nation in Europe, whose publications have been devoured by educated folks in Germany, Russia, Scandinavia, and Austria. Frederick the Nice, whom Hitler invoked so typically, virtually didn’t communicate or learn something aside from French, he despised German.
French public opinion was extraordinarily delicate to any trace of limitless royal energy, which was understood exactly as tyranny. As a result of numerous misunderstandings and deadly errors – inciting warfare and forcing the clergymen to swear to the brand new regime – the catastrophe that was the revolution then occurred.
However all of that pales compared to the Nazi or Communist tyranny of the twentieth century. And at this time? Might it have occurred to these folks within the 18th century who feared Louis XVI as a tyrant that in 2024 we might face the grave hazard of actual tyranny, the tyranny of Putin? When one hears the phrases of the Marseillaise at this time, one can not assist however consider Putin. The very foundations of contemporary free Europe are beneath risk.
What to do with an aggressive tyranny within the twenty first century, a tyranny geared up with nuclear weapons, which threatens to disintegrate the European Union, provoke right-wing nationalism and disintegrate the rule of legislation, as has already occurred in Hungary, for instance? How you can successfully assist Ukraine to stop the exhaustion of its human and psychological sources over time?
The Marseillaise is a music of warfare, a music of bloodshed, a music of the nice warfare that revolutionary France waged in opposition to the remainder of Europe. The wars that introduced Napoleon to energy. Resistance to tyranny and the flexibility to really eliminate tyranny are various things. One other empire awaited France on its method to freedom. Actually, she has solely been single for a short while. However what ought to we do at this time in order that she and the whole Union stay free?
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