« The counter-revolution will be the contrary of the revolution ». Explain and Discuss

Abstract

De Maistre's conservative monarchism and fervent criticism of the revolution reasons on a theocratic basis and on a historicist perspective; but he also admits the faults of absolutism and stresses how revolutionary violence is a punishment for the evil and corruption of Christian France, partly caused by the Enlightenment. His theory of sacrifice, therefore, explains the revolution as a purification, where the death of the innocent is useful to redeem the guilty world