The Mother of All Revolutions: The French Revolution is the Origin of the Great Reset
“The French Revolution is the most astonishing thing that has hitherto happened in the world.”
~Edmund Burke
It is impossible to understand what is happening in the world today without an understanding of the French Revolution—those who reduce the Revolution to the simple proposition of an oppressed people rising against tyranny have no real comprehension of what happened. The French Revolution was the mother of all modern revolutions—the guillotine claimed its bloody prize after the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, and the world has never been the same.
“What we learn today from the study of the Great Revolution,” the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin wrote in 1908, “is that it was the source and origin of all the present communist, anarchist, and socialist conceptions.”
It should also be understood that the French Revolution was also the beginning of the Secular Revolt against the Church, and the beginnings of militant atheism. It was also the beginning of communism, as Kropotkin pointed out:
“Born out of the pressing necessities of those troubled years, the communism of 1793, with its affirmation on of the right of all to sustenance and to the land for its production, its denial of the right of any one to hold more land than he and his family could cultivate — that is, more than a farm of 120 acres — and its attempt to communalise all trade and industry — this communism went straighter to the heart of things than all the minimum programmes of our own time, or even all the maximum preambles of such programmes.”
For some background on this:
The French Revolution ended the ancien régime—a feudal system of legal privileges and special rights for the nobility—and it created a power vacuum.
Nesta Webster wrote in her book, The French Revolution: A Study in Democracy,
“I am convinced that the day will come when the world, enlightened by the principles of true democracy, will recognize that the French Revolution was not an advance towards democracy, but a directly anti-democratic and reactionary movement, that it was not a struggle for liberty but an attempt to strangle liberty at its birth; the leaders will then be seen in their true colours as the cruellest enemies of the people, and the people, no longer condemned for their ferocity, will be pitied as the victims of a gigantic conspiracy.”
Cardinal Étienne-Charles de Loménie was the minister of finance of France before the Revolution and he expressed it:
“The persistence of subversive Utopias is at the same time the cause and the natural consequence of all those abortive strokes that make up our history since 1789; a vicious circle in which France turns and mentally exhausts herself.”
He died in prison the day after being arrested.
Quintin Craufurd the friend of Marie Antoinette, writing to British Prime Minister Willian Pitt in 1794, remarked:
“There is a great resemblance between the maxims, as far as they are known, of the Illumines and the early Jacobins, and I am persuaded that the seeds of many of those extravagant but diabolical doctrines that spread with such unparalleled luxuriance in the hotbeds of France were carried from Germany.”
The lodges of the German Freemasons and Illuminati were the source of all the schemes that culminated in the Reign of Terror.
THE JACOBINS
It is ironic that the anti-church atheist Jacobins were named after the Dominican monastery where they originally hosted their meetings. The Jacobins were well-organized and set up clubs all over France, where coordinated agents could disseminate plans and propaganda. Many of the leading officials such as Maximilien Robespierre and Duc d’Orléans were executed by guillotine for their service to the revolution.
Most of the members of the nefarious Committee of Public Safety were Jacobins, who facilitated the murder of between 16,000 to 40,000 people during the Reign of Terror—over 200,000 people were arrested. The Committee of Public Safety eliminated the right to a public trial and a lawyer for people suspected of treason.
Antoine Barnave: First president of the Jacobin Club.
Maximilien Robespierre: Last president of the Jacobin Club, a key figure in the Reign of Terror, and leader of the Montagnards.
Paul Barras: Member of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security.
Louis-Marie La Révellière-Lépeaux: Member of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security.
Georges Jacques Danton: Member of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security, executed in 1794.
Camille Desmoulins: Journalist and politician, close associate of Danton and Robespierre.
Jean-Paul Marat: Radical journalist and politician, member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Pierre Louis Prieur: Member of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just: Close associate of Robespierre, member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Bertrand Barère: Member of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security.
Jean-Baptiste Carrier: Member of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security.
Philippe Égalité (Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans): Member of the Jacobin Club, executed in 1793.
Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois: Member of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security.
Louis de Saint-Just: Member of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security.
Jacques Pierre Brissot: Founder of the Jacobin Club, executed in 1793.
John Robison said of the Illuminati, in his book Proofs of a Conspiracy:
“Their first and immediate aim is to get the possession of riches, power, and influence, without industry; and to accomplish this they want to abolish Christianity; and then dissolute manners and universal profligacy will procure them the adherence of all the wicked, and enable them to overturn all the civil governments of Europe; after which they will think of further conquests, and extend their operations to the other quarters of the globe, till they have reduced mankind to the state of one undistinguishable chaotic mass.”
“Over this helpless mass each conspiracy hopes to establish its ascendancy, thereby bringing the peoples of the world under an iron tyranny unequalled in the annals of the human race. With each conspiracy, moreover, militant atheism forms an integral part of the scheme.”
Augustin Barruel wrote in his study of the Jacobins:
“To whatever government, to whatever religion, to whatever rank of society you belong, if Jacobinism wins the day, if the projects and oaths of the sect are accomplished, it is all over with your religion, with your priesthood, with your government and your laws, with your properties and your magistrates. Your riches, your fields, your houses, even to your cottages, all will cease to be yours. You thought the Revolution ended in France, and the Revolution in France was only the first attempt of the Jacobins. In the desires of a terrible and formidable sect, you have only reached the first stage of the plans it has formed for that general Revolution which is to overthrow all thrones, all altars, annihilate all property, efface all law, and end by dissolving all society.”
THE JACOBINS PROPAGANDA METHODS
The Jacobins organized the French Freemasons and Illuminati after their own methods. These propaganda attacks were carried out to deceive, not only the naive population, but also the educated class.
They were the original gaslighters:
Committing atrocities and then attributing them to one's enemies
Justifying aggression by the plea that one was acting merely in self-defence
Announcing sinister designs on the part of one's own intended victim, this was throughout the plans of the French revolutionaries
Whenever they contemplated an attack upon the King, an alarm was circulated that the King was meditating a massacre of the people
The unarmed citizens, the unoffending priests, the women and children who perished, were invariably “conspirators” harbouring dark designs
These tactics remain unchanged to this day.
COMMUNISM WAS INVENTED BY THE FRENCH
Contrary to some historians, who are biased by their own misconceptions, communism did not originate with Karl Marx or Frederich Engels, albeit they are its most popular intellectuals. Some have taken offhand comments, such as “Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918” (Henry Hamilton Beamish), and turned it into an elaborate ideology.
Anyone who has spent any time studying the Old Testament, will tell you that there is very little, if anything to support the view that “communism is Judaism.” The 613 Levitical Laws, that form the core of Judaism, bear little resemblance to the Communist Manifesto.
Other elaborate historical revisions, like Richard Poe’s How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews), are equally unconvincing.
The first instance of the word communist was through the French novelist Restif de la Bretonne, who wrote a book review in 1785, on Victor d'Hupay's 1779 book Project for a Philosophical Community, where he described a plan for a communal experiment in Marseille, where all private property was banned. It is considered the first full blueprint for a secular communist society.
Victor d'Hupay referred to himself as a communiste, the French form of the word “communist” in a 1782 letter, the first recorded instance of that term. His book is viewed as the cornerstone of communism, because it described for the first time how communists (people living in a commune) need to “share all economic and material products between inhabitants of the commune, so that all may benefit from everybody's work.”
D’Hupay was inspired by Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot, and he also corresponded with the Jacobins, Mirabeau and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.
D’Hupay’s reviewer, Restif himself wrote several novels centered around the idea of eliminating private property, first using the term “community of goods” in 1783, and then the term “communism” in 1793, rendered in French as communisme.
These communist ideals proved influential during the French Revolution—various anti-monarchists, particularly the Jacobins, supported the idea of redistributing wealth equally among the people, including Jean-Paul Marat and Gracchus Babeuf.
Historian Peter Kropotkin commented, in his book, The Great French Revolution:
“But at the same time the Great Revolution has bequeathed to tar some other principles of an infinitely higher import; the principles of communism. We have seen how all through the Great Revolution the communist idea kept coming to the front, and how after the fall of the Girondins numerous attempts and sometimes great attempts were made in this direction. Fourierism descends in a direct line from L’Ange on one side and from Chalier on the other. Babeuf is the direct descendant of ideas which stirred the masses to enthusiasm in 1793; he, Buonarotti, and Sylvain Maréchal have only systematized them a little or even merely put them into literary form.
But the secret societies organized by Babeuf and Buonarotti were the origin of the communistes matérialistes secret societies through which Blanqui and Barbes conspired under the bourgeois monarchy of Louis-Philippe. Later on, in, 1866, the International Working Men’s Association appeared in the direct line of descent from these societies. As “socialism” we know now that this term came into vogue to avoid the term “communism,” which at one time was dangerous because the secret communist societies became societies for action, and were rigorously suppressed by the bourgeoisie then in power.”
The Jacobins were involved in a failed coup attempt, known as the Conspiracy of the Equals in 1796. The Jacobins intended to establish a revolutionary regime based on communal ownership, egalitarianism and the redistribution of property—the central theme of today’s Jacobins in the World Economic Forum.
Without property, all of our rights disintegrate, as well as the foundation of all civilizations, not just the West.
Private property is the basis of civilization, beginning 12,000 years ago, when hunter-gatherers gave up their nomadic lifestyle and hunkered down to shepherding and agriculture. All of our legal, judicial and economic institutions originated in the requirements of maintaining property. Overturning this foundation, would indeed be a Great Reset.
One of the most vocal agitators, Gracchus Babeuf gathered around him a small circle of followers known as the Societé des égaux, who merged with the Jacobins. The ultimate goal of Gracchus Babeuf and the Jacobins was absolute equality. The purpose of the Conspiracy of Equals was to continue the revolution, and to lead it to the collectivisation of lands and the means of production to put an end to civil dissension and public poverty.
The Conspiracy proclaimed in its Manifesto of Equals—written by one of Babeuf’s top aides, Sylvain Maréchal:
“We demand real equality, or Death; that is what we must have. For its sake, we are ready for anything; we are willing to sweep everything away. Let all the arts vanish, if necessary, as long as genuine equality remains for us.”
Babeuf invented the theme of the Great Reset, almost 250 years ago, and it is the repeated mantra of today’s chaos agents: “May everything return to chaos, and out of chaos may there emerge a new and regenerated world.”
The unholy trinity of Babeuf, Resif and Maréchal were the original intellectuals who created communism out of the ashes of the French Revolution. Sylvain Maréchal was a radical atheist and vehement critic of Christianity, as evidenced in his parody of the Bible, Livre échappe du déluge, (The Book That Escaped the Flood), written in 1784, which resulted in him being fired from his position as librarian at the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris.
From a short biography of Maréchal:
“A lifelong atheist and proponent of regicide, Maréchal's more notorious writings include the hit play Le jugement dernier des rois (1793), which featured an exploding volcano killing Europe's monarchs, and a Culte et loix des hommes sans dieu (1798) a kind of ersatz bible for an atheistic sect. Maréchal is thus the perfect guide to understanding the impact of the radical literary sphere on the Revolution and vice versa. What kind of Revolution do we get with Maréchal as our guide?”
The answer is a three-ring circus, that continues uninterrupted to this day. The American election cycle is the direct ancestor to the French Revolution’s topsy-turvy attempts to both maintain and overthrow the existing Old World Order, and replace it with an insane asylum of arrogant, militant assholes. The Republicans and Democrats sit on their teeter-totters every four years, and attempt the impossible overthrow of each other.
The Old World Order can never be restored. We can never go back to a totalitarian Christian Monarchy, but neither can the New World Order ever be fully established, because it not only goes against the Natural World Order, but also against the Divine World Order.
The Secular Revolt instigated by the Jacobins, Freemasons, Illuminati and the Enlightenment thinkers freed the Western world from the clutches of the priest-class, but it inadvertently created an even worse menace of totalitarian secular police states, which in turn, plunged the world into the wars of the last century.
Another world war is on the menu.
I do not know if it is fear mongering or truth mongering, to state the result of the globalists’ agenda may be a scorched Earth with no visible winners. With the modern weapons that are available today—that make the Nazi War Machine look like a troop of Boy Scouts—the death toll from another world war could easily be in the billions, not millions.
God help us all, if these psychos get their way.
PROTO-FASCISM
Because of the political and moral vacuum created by the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte was able to exploit the void. He leveraged his military prowess and charismatic leadership to rise to prominence. Some historians have argued that Napoleon was a “proto-fascist” and the origin of later appearing full-blown Nazism.
Fascism was the equal but opposite secular reaction to the ugliness of communism, but, it was also similarly grounded in materialism and atheism. Secularism, humanism, atheism and materialism (SHAM) directly led to two world wars, as well as a century of unrest and civil protest. This century is on track for another world war and unprecedented mass civil unrest.
To continue, historian George Mosse claimed in his book, The Fascist Revolution, that fascism inherited the mass ideology and secular religion of the French Revolution, which emphasized the collective will, civil equality and the nation-state. This revolutionary legacy contributed to the development of fascist movements. Mosse saw the French Revolution’s emphasis on the collective and the nation-state as precursors to fascist ideology.
Fascist movements drew upon these revolutionary ideals, adapting them to promote nationalist and authoritarian agendas. Mosse introduces the idea of the “general will,” a term rooted in the philosophy of Enlightenment thinker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, that consists of “the belief that only when all are acting together as an assembled people does man’s nature as a citizen come into active existence.”
Mosse argued that “the general will became a secular religion.” This perspective suggests that fascist movements draw upon the revolutionary ideals of equality, fraternity, and liberty, and transform them into a mass-based, totalitarian ideology. Fascism co-opts the revolutionary fervour and sense of community, and redirects it towards authoritarian and nationalist goals.
Today’s MAGA movement is a similar state-sponsored attempt to capture the nationalist fervour of working class discontent, and channel it into the goals of the state, and the broader international collective goals of the global ruling class. Donald Trump and Elon Musk use talking points like freedom of speech and immigration to corral the dissident community into a submissive and compliant herd.
The MAGA sheep are convinced Trump is their shepherd, even after Trump committed mass murder through Operation Warp Speed.
FRENCH SPECTRUM DOMINANCE
The impact of French Revolution on the political attitudes of today cannot be underestimated. Even our concepts of right wing and left wing came from the French Assembly. The political spectrum that politicians position themselves grew out of the seating arrangement of the Assembly:
As seen from the Speaker's seat at the front of the Assembly, the aristocracy traditionally sat at the seat of honour on the right, and the commoners sat on the left, hence the terms right-wing politics and left-wing politics.
The right wing on the ideological spectrum were the Ancien Régime (“old order”). The Right implied support for the aristocracy, monarchy and the church, while the Left implied support for republicanism, secularism and civil liberties.
To this day, these terms are roughly the same, except republicanism has become part of the right wing. During the French Revolution, minorities, peasants, the working class and capitalists were on the left, because free markets and laissez faire capitalism worked in their favour.
Today’s France has a multitude of parties that are roughly divided into left, right and center. During France’s election in July 2024, Macron was forced to cobble together a coalition of four parties to gain a majority.
REVOLUTION IS VIOLENCE
Revolution is the quick and violent overthrow of institutions. Many of our institutions take centuries to mature and develop—institutions that seem so fixed and immovable, that even the most passionate reformers would not dream of attacking them. Revolution is the downfall, and the tearing down of everything sacred that time compressed into the essence of our social, religious, political and economic lives in a nation or society.
Revolution also means the subversion of ideas, traditions and concepts concerning each of the complex institutions, and the relation of the citizen to the state. Revolution is therefore a dramatic new social contract, rammed through the doors of power, foisted upon the populace without due process, debate or discussion. Abrupt change is always traumatic and disruptive to society. It is always better for society to progress slowly and incrementally, rather than through violent revolution.
France, as a nation, never recovered from the French Revolution. After the Revolution, the French people became restless and unstable—the Revolution changed the national character, and France lost the habit of stability. They are unable to remain content with any form of government. The spell cast by the revolutionaries has yet to be broken.
The French lost faith in all their rulers, and through three centuries of succeeding governments they have never found one to satisfy them permanently. Protests in France are a daily occurrence—it is the national sport—and revolution has become ingrained in French culture like no other nation.
The anarchist historian, Peter Kropotkin posed the $64,000 question in his seminal account of the French Revolution:
“When one sees that terrible and powerful Convention wrecking itself in 1794–1795, that proud and strong Republic disappearing, and France, after the demoralising régime of the Directory, falling under the military yoke of a Bonaparte, one is impelled to ask: ‘What was the good of the Revolution if the nation had to fall back again under despotism?’ In the course of the nineteenth century, this question has been constantly put, and the timid and conservative have worn it threadbare as an argument against revolutions in general.”
Successive wars will always be the harvest of unbridled secularism. No matter how much blood, sweat and tears are poured into revolutions, rebellions and uprisings, the long-term results will always be the same. The powerful SHAM (secularism, humanism, atheism, materialism) will continue to steer human beings down a dark hole, in the name of Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
This does not imply that we should abandon the benefits of the French Revolution, the Secular Revolt and the Enlightenment thinkers. We have them to thank for our significant gains in civil rights and freedoms. We also have them to thank for the great advances in science and technology which have changed our world forever. It was the Enlightenment thinkers who triggered the Scientific Revolution.
The mistake they made was assuming they could create solidarity (human brotherhood) without the Divine Parent. We are not orphans of time, adrift in an empty, meaningless universe.
All life has purpose and meaning.
We are all brothers and sisters, part of an ever-evolving, progressive cosmic plan, coordinated, created and orchestrated by the Master Planner.
We all need the Mother/Father, Great Source and Center of the Universe to lead us to eternity, whether modern men and women care to admit it or not.
Excellent. Especially the closing paragraphs.
One point: Your dismissal of Ryan Poe’s work seems like a hand wave:
“Other elaborate historical revisions, like Richard Poe’s How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews), are equally unconvincing.”
I read Poe’s book and found it plausible and intriguing; especially the British role in the FR. And subsequent color revolutions. Historian Matthew Ehret takes a similar point of view. Can you point me to a deeper critique of Poe’s work that supports your interpretation?
Very enjoyable. I especially enjoyed the cover of writers like Barruel and Webster. I’d like to suggest that the FR was the first political instance of the mutability of human nature (via Locke and Helvétius) expressed as régénération. This has served as an excuse for mass slaughter ever since: no price is too high for the elevation to a new type of human being.