The Ancient Regime
by Hippolyte Taine /
2017 / English / PDF
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Why should we fetch Taine's work up from its dusty box in the basement of the national library? First of all because his
realistic views of our human nature, of our civilization and of socialism as well as his dark premonitions of the 20th
century were proven correct. Secondly because we may today with more accuracy call his work:
"The Origins of Popular Democracy and of Communism."
His lucid analysis of the current ideology remains as interesting or perhaps even more interesting than when it was
written especially because we cannot accuse him of being part in our current political and ideological struggle.
