9k:RD/ArendtAgainstUSIndependence/01 (Q618)

Prompt

Is it just me or did Hannah Arendt not understand there was an American revolution? Hannah Arendt is one of many Liberal-republican aligned writers who tried to make something special out of "democracy" or "rationality" (I'm not sure what main themes her work focused on but I think it was something like that), and then tried to use this to say the French Revolution was a bad idea that shouldn't have happened, with some kind of implication that "democracy" can simply exist without breaking up feudalism. Works like this are usually trying to make some point about the current structure of the United States being perfect or impossible to improve, but if you take the French revolution in its historical context, this would seem to me to be arguing for leaving France in some kind of stratified caste system a bit like India where a relatively small number of people has power over the population and there is nothing resembling United States democracy. So, fitting back what her apparent point is onto the United States, I can only draw the conclusion that she doesn't understand the United States went through a bourgeois revolution against colonial governors and the British Crown and is accidentally implying the United States should have remained a colony. Did Arendt ever acknowledge this contradiction between United States democracy "not needing a revolution" and the fact it already had one?

Motifs or claims

Response (AI)

The American Revolution was the only good revolution because it was a political revolution and not a social revolution -> wow. no wonder the United States has been almost warm toward Trotsky at times while not understanding Communism whatsoever. he explicitly referred to a political revolution being needed instead of a social revolution... after the Bolsheviks had already completed a social revolution. hmmmmm.
Arendt and Heidegger / Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger -> wow, good catch. I remember about Heidegger's anti-technology piece. he was postmodern in his own very special way of being explicitly pre-modern, but he sure wanted to detach from Modernity.

Subjective themes (no AI)

being postmodern by being pre-modern -> theme in Heidegger, and probably any number of other places.

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