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Thomas Paine's Famous Speech Rights of Man
The Reflections resembles George Orwell's Nineteen EightyFour in two important ways. Both books were written about a revolution in another country and its consequences, and both were directed against British sympathizers with that revolution, and intended to isolate them After meeting Benjamin Franklin in London, Paine emigrated to America in September 1774 where he published an antislavery tract and became co-editor of Pennsylvania Magazine. No great fan of the British Monarchy, Paine soon became an articulate spokesman for the American independence movement Paine also has the distinction of being the man who proposed the name United States of America for the new nation. .
In 1791, Paine published Rights of Man, an abstract political tract published in support of the French Revolution. It was written as a reply to Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke. The book — which was highly critical of monarchies and European social institutions — was so controversial that the British government put Paine on trial. Paine had already left for Paris.
The Communist Revolution has been the most ambitious attempt in history to remake human society upon a theory.' Edmund Burke correctly diagnosed the first attempt, and in the process gave useful advice to others about their revolutions. But before the period of military expansion, and before Burke began to write his Reflections, the revolution that began in France was beginning to expand in another way. This was an expansion through the movement of ideas, and through the strong sympathy, admiration, and spirit of emulation which various revolutionary transactions and declarations in France had aroused in certain circles in other countries, including Britain, by the end of 1789. Burke's Reflections was written with the deliberate aim of sounding the alarm against this form of revolutionary expansion.
Thomas Paine.Photo.Virtualology.com. 2000. January 8, 2009 www.biographybase.com Raskinman.Thomas Paine Memorial Video.March 4,2008. January 8,2008.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TURe-3edOI
