Nietzsche on Paris and France

'As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris..
I believe only in French culture, and regard everything else in Europe which calls 'culture' as a misunderstanding'

from Ecce Homo

3rd Republic and Labor

Rereading Shirer's 'The Collapse of the 3rd Republic'

Bourgeois of the 3rd Republic was no different than the ancien regime in escaping taxation. Plus, the regime was deeply anti Labor, in fact one of the most reactionary among developed nations. Naturally no attempt on social security legislation implemented by the likes of..Bismarck!

Hence the appeal of Sorel and the General Strike by the working class, and their lack of incentive to fight for the country; which ultimately led to 1940.

P.S. Aristide Briand put down a general strike in 1910 by arresting union leaders and calling the strikers to army reserves. He has begun his career as a labor lawyer, claiming the necessity of the gneral strike!

Immanuel Kant on the public & enlightenment

'..the public can only slowly attain enlightenment. Perhaps a fall of personal despotism or of avaricious or tyrannical oppression may be accomplished by revolution, but never a true reform in ways of thinking.'

- Immanuel Kant, 'What is Enlightenment(1784)?'

cui bono

Politics professor in college quoted this a lot.

According to Cicero it's from Cassius:

"illud Cassianum 'cui bono' fuerit"

Philippic II XIV. 35

Univ. of Halle professor reports on Winckelmann

as a student:

'homo vagus et inconstans'

Gun control related articles

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html

Also New Yorker article

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-mass-shooting-in-texas-and-false-arguments-against-gun-control

Péguy says

'Tout commence an mystique at finit en politique.'

Charles Péguy.

Republican Party is..

Carl Albert on Gerard Ford vetoing public works bill;

"..Herbert Hoover..equally conservative Republican President has again demonstrated the lack of economic unterstanding and human sensitivity which has enshackled the Republican Party:

LBJ's encomium to FDR

On the 20th anniversary of FDR's death on Apr. 12, 1965;

"...In some mysterious ways he could reach out, and where there was fear, came hope; where there was resignation, came excitement; where there was indifference, came compassion.

 And perhaps we can remember him most, not for what he did, but for what he wanted to do. We are trying to do it still. And I suppose we always will; as will many others to whom he is just a name and a picture in a book."

Dunno who wrote this, but it's a masterpiece. LBJ really was a true successor to FDR.

Again immersing on French/Russian themes

La peau douce [videorecording] / Janus Films ; MK2 Diffusion ; scénario original de F. Truffaut et Jean-Louis Richard ; mise en scène, François Truffaut ; Films du Carrosse-SEDIF-SIMAR.	39009056254879	DUE 05-15-17	SOF
	Silence de la mer (Motion picture)	39009056552488	DUE 05-15-17	SIL

War and peace / Leo Tolstoy ; translated with notes by Louise and Aylmer Maude ; revised and edited with an introduction by Amy Mandelker.	39009040480051	DUE 05-27-17	FIC TOLSTOY,L
	Was revolution inevitable? : turning points of the Russian Revolution / edited by Tony Brenton.	39009051584213	DUE 05-30-17	947.0841 WAS
	Lenin on the train / Catherine Merridale.	39009051594170	DUE 05-30-17	947.0841 MER
	Montaigne : a life / Philippe Desan ; translated by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal.	39009051556930	DUE 05-30-17	92 MONTAIGNE,M DES
	A history of modern French literature : from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast.	39009051584189	DUE 05-30-17	840.9 HIS

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