@thltd_: On the French Revolution: "Rob...

On the French Revolution: "Robbers, convicts, the worthless of every species form the advance guard of insurrections and lead the peasantry to violence... In every revolution the dregs of society come to the surface... some almost naked, others oddly dressed." Sounds familiar.

The Origins of Contemporary France by Hippolyte Tain (1875). French Revolutionaries also legalized sodomy, feminism, had non-Whites in government, and some pushed for property abolition and wealth redistribution, e.g. Babuef's Conspiracy of the Equals.

Leftism results in the same set of policies whenever it crops up throughout history - xenophilia, girl power, gay stuff, stealing peoples' money, and filling the streets with criminals.