>predicts the Russian Revolution over 100 years in advanceHow the FUCK did he do it?
>>24746032Sorry, haven’t read enough de Maistre to respond well, but take a bump.Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky were pretty prescient about the turmoils of the 20th century I think, too, but they were closer in time to it than de Maistre so perhaps not as impressive if he really did predict the Russian revolution.
I predict me Weiner will rise with the sun on the morrow gruff gruff
>>24747257Maistre became an advisor to the Tsar during his years in Russia and he directly advised the Tsar not to listen to his liberal advisors, and not to free the serfs, because he predicted that if Russians as a race were not constantly held down by feudalism they would collapse into turmoil and revolution worse than France. I am not making this up, you can go look it up. It was wild to read about it because he's probably saying this in like 1804 or 1806, not just over a century before the Bolsheviks but even half a century before Marx.
Russia was a failed state for a long long time.There has to be a revolution at some point
>>24747525Is it too late to bring back serfdom?
