Ep. 453 The Reign of Terror and the French Revolution
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
When the most radical of the French revolutionaries attempted the total transformation of society, the result was mass murder. I tell the grim story in today's episode. It's taken from my Western Civilization from 1493 course for the Ron Paul Curriculum.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 453. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.3 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:16.9 | I guess I'm in some kind of atrocity mood this week, because today we're going to talk about the French revolutionary reign of terror. |
| 0:23.9 | A very interesting, although, of course, terrifying period in the history of Western civilization. |
| 0:29.7 | So we're going to get to that in a minute. |
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