I am neither a fascist, nor a philosophe.
Re Piketty, and the notion of inequality, it is a little ironic that the Enlightenment philosophes had been the ones rendered declasse by the Revolution, a radical solution which they themselves had been the main ones promoting in the mid 18th Century.
Not really so ironic, when one considers their overwhelmingly aristocratic patronage.
Rousseau was the only one they later kept, apparently.
He had taken the position, more or less, that all traditional authority was contrary to nature.
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