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>>24799740 (OP)
>effortlessly makes every chud in existence seethe
how did Rousseau do it?

>>24799748
I'm a Chud and I fucking love Rousseau because of the simple fact that I have read him. He is completely misunderstood by just about everyone who refuses to read him. Few understand that Voltaire would jizz his pants if he saw today's world, as opposed to Rousseau who'd want to kill himself for being one of the inspiration for the French Revolution

>>24799761
Elaborate? I read the part of his confessions where he strips naked and chases women backwards/ass-first in hopes of getting spanked. If someone can be so candid he must have something worth saying.

>>24799761
I don't get why the French Nobles actually supported and financed Voltaire. Were they retarded?

one of the greatest shitposters

>>24799740 (OP)
John Locke but with more muh feels

>>24799950
DeMaistre wrote that many French nobles that got exiled during the terror continued to be fans of Voltaire and the Enlightenment without any sense of irony

>>24800245
This reminds me of far left Harvard students. I wonder if they realize their nepo ass will be the first ones on the chopping block if the communists win.

>>24799761
Everybody from back then would be horrified at the absolute state of the world rn

>>24799950
Because it was their version of shitposting.

>>24799940
I just don't feel like doing a tl;dr of his thoughts, sorry kek. Just read his books. Starting with his Confessions. They're filled with stupid anecdotes like this one. Then the Social Contract so you can shit on the people who never read it and constantly bring it up.

>>24799950
Because Louis XIV turned the court away from religions and towards secular intellectual masturbation

>>24800248
they don't, because they haven't even read marx, let alone lenin or mao. so in their fantasies communism is just a type of social democracy where they can be free to indulge in their petite bourgeoisie lifestyle withouth any consequences.

>>24799740 (OP)
>ruins the world

>>24799748
>>24801926
like pottery

>>24800248
>communists
no such thing exists any more, all is left of the left is corporate identitarian scam but the right is very much active and well and alive.

>>24799740 (OP)
>two kings staring at each other

>>24800267
Rousseau was based and I'm tired of pretending that he wasn't just because Jacobin scum loved him.

Was reading Reveries of a Solitary Walker. There's a part where he big dog runs him down and he face-plants in the ground. Had a miserable day. You haters should give it a read for a laugh.

>>24799761
I am a French Chud, and I love Rousseau too, based lad and great writer, in french his prose is beautiful.
Here are some of his writings, I hope the translaton is good.

>It seems that the feeling of humanity evaporates and weakens as it spreads across the earth, and that we cannot be moved by the calamities of Tartary or Japan as we are by those of a European people. We must somehow limit and suppress our interest and compassion in order to make them active.

>Socrates' virtue is that of the wisest of men; but between Caesar and Pompey, Cato seems a god among mortals. One teaches a few individuals, fights the sophists, and dies for the truth; the other defends the state, liberty, and the laws against the conquerors of the world, and finally leaves the earth when he no longer sees a homeland to serve. A worthy pupil of Socrates would be the most virtuous of his contemporaries, a worthy emulator of Cato would be the greatest.

>Every patriot is harsh toward foreigners; they are merely men, and in his eyes they are nothing. This drawback is inevitable, but it is minor. The essential thing is to be good to the people with whom one lives. Outside, the Spartan was ambitious, greedy, and unjust, but within his walls, selflessness, fairness, and harmony reigned. Be wary of those cosmopolitans who seek far away in their books duties that they disdain to fulfill around them. Such philosophers love the Tartars, so as to be exempt from loving their neighbors.

>If we want people to be virtuous, let us begin by making them love their country. But how can they love it if their country is nothing more to them than it is to strangers, and if it grants them only what it cannot refuse to anyone ?

>We must maintain and restore these old customs, and introduce new ones that are suited to the Polish people. These customs, even if they are indifferent or even bad in some respects, provided they are not fundamentally so, will always have the advantage of endearing the Poles to their country and giving them a natural aversion to mixing with foreigners.

>It is education that must give souls their national character and shape their opinions and tastes in such a way that they become patriots by inclination, by passion, by necessity. When a child opens its eyes, it must see its homeland, and until death it must see nothing else. This love defines its entire existence; it sees only its homeland; it lives only for it.

>Patriotic spirit is an exclusive spirit that makes us view anyone other than our fellow citizens as foreigners and almost as enemies. Such was the spirit of Sparta and Rome. The spirit of Christianity, on the contrary, makes us view all men as our brothers, as children of God. Christian charity does not allow us to make a hateful distinction between compatriots and foreigners; it is not good for making citizens or warriors, but only Christians and men; its ardent zeal embraces the whole human race without distinction.

>>24804237
Thanks for these.

>>24804237
What texts are these from? Thanks.

>>24800256
Ben Franklin would be so angry about Diddy being persecuted.

>>24804442
1- A Discourse on Political Economy
2- A Discourse on Political Economy
3- Emile, or On Education
4- A Discourse on Political Economy
5- Considerations on the Government of Poland
6- Considerations on the Government of Poland
7- Letter to Leonhard Usteri

>>24799740 (OP)
I keep meaning to read him but just havent. Its like there is this era of writers, when writer were changing the world, and I havent read a single book from it. Its like that French Revolution era, you know what I am talking about. Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Burke and othere.

I need to get my shit together and get reading.

>>24805077
You're thinking of Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment thinkers (Rousseau arguably being the first one)

>>24805280
Yah. Very important era. Great literature. And anon here has never touched it. What a fool I am.

>>24805034
Thank you! I will have to check out Discourse on Political Economy in particular.