Written by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo
The French Revolution of 1789 was based on the ideological philosophy
of the Enlightenment summarized in the famous trilogy, “Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity.” By imposing full equality on society, the
advocates of this philosophy sought to bring about complete freedom and
an idyllic brotherhood among men.
The Guillotine’s “Fraternity”
As is well known, the immediate effects of that equality were the
execution of King Louis XVI, his sister Princess Elizabeth and Queen
Marie Antoinette; thousands of nobles were guillotined; clergy were
persecuted and massacred or had to go underground. The peasants of the
Vendee who rose up in defense of altar and throne suffered a veritable
genocide and their region was devastated by General Turreau’s “infernal
columns.”
[1]
The period of Terror imposed by French revolutionaries in the name of
equality was emulated in later times, as can be seen in the genocides
carried out by the Nazis and by Communists in Russia, China and
Cambodia. For Khmer Rouge revolutionaries, to be an intellectual or even
looking like one by wearing glasses was reason enough to kill you.
[2]
Absolute Equality Destroys Liberty
Absolute equality destroys freedom and prevents fraternity because it
is a utopia; an ideological myth that runs counter to human nature.
Although men are equal in their essence, they are unequal in their
accidents, such as talent, willpower, intelligence, etc. Liberty and
fraternity are only possible when there is mutual respect, which in turn
requires recognizing of these accidental differences. The only way to
impose this utopian equality is through a fierce dictatorship.
After the French Revolution came the secular and egalitarian world of
our days; and communism was the result of taking the principles espoused
in 1789 to their ultimate consequences. Indeed, if all inequality is
bad, then why accept economic inequalities?
[3]
Lenin made a meaningful comparison between the French and the Communist
Revolutions: “The French revolution is called great because it … was an
effective revolution which, after overthrowing the royalists,
completely crushed them. And we shall do the same thing with the
capitalist gentlemen; … their ‘freedom’ must be abolished, or curtailed.
This will help to emancipate labor from the yoke of capital.”
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From the French Revolution to the Cultural Revolution
But when equality from the French Revolution trilogy is taken to its
final consequences it goes beyond socio-political and economic
egalitarianism and tends to destroy even inequality between sexes,
serving as a basis for homosexual ideology.
[5]
Large demonstrations against homosexual “marriage”—gathering more than
200,000 people—were held in France on November 17 and 18. We can see
that the homosexual movement clearly sees their role in the cultural
war. One of the most revealing banners in a homosexual
counter-demonstration proclaimed
“Liberty, Equality,
Homosexuality,” making the logical connection between the principles of
the French Revolution and the homosexual ideology.
[6]
Such an adaptation of the French Revolution motto does not appear to be
a sporadic event; it can be found on homosexual sites in France, Canada
and Poland as well as in articles dealing with homosexuality.
[7] A photograph of a homosexual parade in Paris shows the same motto tattooed on the arm of a demonstrator.
[8]
Socialism, Homosexuality and Violence
It is no wonder that socialist governments support the homosexual
agenda, as is now the case in France where the Hollande Administration
is seeking to impose homosexual “marriage.”
At the same time, the anarchic-feminist FEMEN, which is one of the most
extreme movements of international socialism, recently demonstrated in
support of homosexual “marriage” in France.
FEMEN’s provocative topless women activists who wear nun’s veils on
their heads and sport blasphemous and obscene slogans written on their
bodies, launched forth against families and children who were peacefully
demonstrating in defense of traditional marriage and attacked them with
tear gas.
[9]
Although pictures and video footage clearly show the anarchists
attacking demonstrators, who tried to stop and steer them away from the
crowd, much of the French media turned reality on its head by presenting
the semi-naked women as victims of the Catholic demonstrators. The
socialist government was quick to condemn the Civitas Institute, which
organized one of the demonstrations, threatening it with closure.
[10]
Anarchic Sexual Movement
The FEMEN revolutionary movement originated in the Ukraine and has now
spread to many countries. On its site it defines itself in the following
manner:
“FEMEN – is the new Amazons, capable of undermining the foundations of the patriarchal world by their intellect, sex, agility, make disorder, bring neurosis and panic to the men’s world.
“FEMEN – is an ideology of SEXTREMISM. FEMEN - is a new ideology of the women's sexual protest presented by extreme topless campaigns of direct action.
FEMEN – is sextremism serving to protect women's rights, democracy watchdogs attacking patriarchy, in all its forms: the dictatorship, the church, the sex industry.
The End of the Revolutionary Process
Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira analyzes the historical process that
has been destroying Christian Civilization using the Protestant Revolt
and the French and Communist Revolutions in his essay Revolution and
Counter Revolution.
He called them “The Three Revolutions,” which led to a “Fourth
Revolution” represented by today’s Cultural War, which is undoubtedly
spearheaded by the homosexual movement that denies natural law.
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At this final phase of the revolutionary process, the struggle has
widened from the socio-political and economic sphere to the destruction
of natural law. Allied with the homosexual movement, socialists seek to
impose a state of affairs completely opposed to the dictates of natural
morals, natural law and Christian law and to the true freedom of the
children of God (Romans 8:21).
A Clash of Certainties
This struggle is above all one of ideas and a clash of certainties. It
is a confrontation between revolutionary hatred against social
hierarchy, morals and God on the one hand, and on the other, an intrepid
proclamation of the truths of the faith, morals and the natural law by
fearless Catholics ready to give their lives in defense of those truths.
In such a great struggle, we need the help of God’s grace through the
intercession of the Blessed Mother more than ever. Her guiding hand will
lead this struggle to the final victory even if we must go through
tunnels of uncertainty and apparent defeat.
Let us remain always confident in Our Lady’s promise at Fatima, that finally her Immaculate Heart will triumph.
[5] Cf. TFP Committee on American Issues,
Defending A Higher Law – Why We Must Resist Same-sex Marriage and the Homosexual Movement, Chapter 3, Tradition, Family, Property, Spring Grove, Penn, 2004.
