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Article: Making the Green one red: environmental politics.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 19, 1990
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IN THE TWO hundred years since the French Revolution, conservatives have been waging a rearguard struggle in defense of freedom against the forces of the radical Left.
It was the events in France that introduced "revolution" into our political vocabulary as a term meaning the absolute break with an existing order and the establishment of a radically new one: a government of Virtue to replace the despotism of Tradition, a religion of Reason to replace religions of Faith, the true order of Nature to replace the artificial system of Society. It was no coincidence, therefore, that the French Revolution also introduced the concept and practice of political terror. For ...