Difference Between Voltaire And Absolutism

Unfortunately, Voltaire ideas had flaws as well. Freedom of speech was merely intended for those whose voice count, the middle class. Voltaire fought for the political and legislative rights that the aristocrats denied to the rising bourgeoisie. He wanted to change the laws that hinder the development and prosperity of the middle class. He was not interested in fighting poverty nor making laborers more deserving of social improvements or financial opportunities to flourish economically as well. Some of his beliefs still excluded the right of Blacks and slaves as equal integrants of society, and some of the benefits of his reforms only could reach the lower class in France as the result of as a ripple effect in the long run. Poverty is
Radical middle-class extremists became the revolutionary leaders who used the financial anguish and social misery of the poor as the torch to drive their need for change and to push their disguised political agenda to seize power and to obliterate the aristocracy. The situation of the poor did not improve much or none at all, if did not turn much worse living in constant fear and uncertainty. Luckily in the end, common sense and reason brought back some peace, calm, and somewhat reestablished social stability, although the country had been changed forever. The price paid to “better” society, just as Voltaire deemed necessary, was certainly a bloody one. The means used to attain them were not much different from the brutality, unfairness, oppression, and repression he despised and so relentlessly denounced.

Voltaire’s freedom of religion and religious tolerance ideas also were not completely beneficial. It is not deniable that all men should be free to choose in what to believe, whatever religion to follow, or whatever divinity to worship, but the freedom of socially practicing a religion also implies to allow the spread and reinforcement of obscurantism,
Radical middle-class extremists became the revolutionary leaders who used the financial anguish and social misery of the poor as the torch to drive their need for change and to push their disguised political agenda to seize power and to obliterate the aristocracy. The situation of the poor did not improve much or none at all, if did not turn much worse living in constant fear and uncertainty. Luckily in the end, common sense and reason brought back some peace, calm, and somewhat reestablished social stability, although the country had been changed forever. The price paid to “better” society, just as Voltaire deemed necessary, was certainly a bloody one. The means used to attain them were not much different from the brutality, unfairness, oppression, and repression he despised and so relentlessly