2006-09-30 01:56:34 · 9 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Were Rousseau, Robespierre, Murat, or any notable Jacobins Jews?
2006-09-30 02:17:47 · update #1
It's true that Karl Marx had Jewish parents. He was anything but Jewish in his beliefs. Trotsky also came from Jewish stock, but he was a mass murderer and hated Judaism. Many Jews in Europe were sympathetic to socialism, but then so were many atheists, scientists, artists, and some Catholics.
The Jews played a small but important role in the American Revolution (helping it). To blame them for the French Revolution is pure hogwash. It's also wrong to call the French Revolution satanic. Atheist, yes, but there is a huge difference.
2006-09-30 02:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jews did play a prominent role in communism because it was a new idea and Jews were at the forefront of all new thinking.
As for the French revolution, no. I don't think there were many Jews in France. But it is true they welcomed it, as the French Revolution released them from the ghettos. That was in Germany. I don't know if they had ghettos in France.
2006-10-01 02:33:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No; in fact, some Enlightenment thinkers were anti-Semitic (i.e. Voltaire).
I wouldn't refer to the French Revolution as "satanic" because they needed a regime change in the worst way. However, they shouldn't have killed so many people to do it.
I doubt Jews had a "crucial role in communism" save for Karl Marx. Jews living in Communist Russia were persecuted and Stalin had Jewish doctors killed in the Gulags during his purges.
2006-09-30 14:04:24 · answer #3 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, silly! Communism was very much like another religon, at least as practiced in the Soviet arena. It was simply a more modern version of Judaism.
The French Revolution was triggered by a serious shortage of bread. People were starving! I saw a documentary where the French, unlike the Germans and Irish, had refused to switch to potatoes and turnips, root crops, instead of relying on wheat, barley and other grains. Therefore, unusual cold and invading armies destroyed their foodstuffs.
So Marie Antionette had a point.
2006-09-30 09:05:51 · answer #4 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Jewish people played no part in the French Revolution.
2006-09-30 09:04:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They were also responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, the Kanto earthquake on Japan and the birth of ignorant fools like you.
2006-09-30 09:10:46 · answer #6 · answered by DS 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps you may wish to visit your community mental health clinic and get some therapy and psychotropic medication help.
2006-09-30 09:05:49 · answer #7 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wonder how many people will fall for this "bait?"
You've sent out a number of these "baits."
Does this make you a "Master Baiter?"
2006-09-30 09:06:22 · answer #8 · answered by Prof. Cochise 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Your name suits you.
2006-09-30 09:04:28 · answer #9 · answered by Nightlight 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋