Thomas Paine, the thinker who directly influenced the 2 largest bourgeois revolutions in the world

In world history, this thinker was also the only person invited to the state council of two of the greatest bourgeois states of the Western period.

He is Thomas Paine, philosopher, revolutionary, author of many works considered by the West to be of great enlightenment thought, including "Common sense" and "Human rights", 2 masterpieces. directly influenced the American Revolution of Independence, and the French bourgeois Revolution.

Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 to a middle-class family in Thetford, Nortfolk, England. Paine's early childhood education was nothing special, when he dropped out of school at the age of 13 to study craftsmanship from his father. But shortly after, he left home to go to London, struggling to make ends meet before becoming a tax officer. With the task of hunting smugglers and collecting taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, Thomas Paine saved his meager remuneration to buy books and scientific equipment. It was a period of time when his social ideas began to blossom.

Paine's youth in England was only remembered for successive failures. He went through two quick marriages, had an unhappy career, and was even expelled from the tax office in 1772, after he filed a hearing demanding an increase in the salaries of his employees and only cited the corruption of the top tax officials at the time.

At the most desperate moment, an important turning point happened to Paine when he met the scientist and thinker Benjamin Franklin. It was Franklin who advised Paine to go to the United States to start a new life, and sent a letter introducing Paine to his son-in-law, Richard Bache.

Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia, USA on November 30, 1974, and was introduced by Richard Bache to Robert Atkin, who later co-founded the Pennsylvania Journal and was the editor for 18 months.

Paine published many articles with several poems, mostly anonymous or written under various pseudonyms. Among these, notably, there was an article entitled "African Slavery in the Americas", a fierce indictment by Thomas Paine for the slave trade in the Black Continent, under the pseudonym "Justice". and Humanity. "

Paine came to the United States at a time when conflicts between colonists and the British government were at their peak. After the bloody fights at Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775, Thomas Paine argued that America's struggle could not stop at fighting taxes from the nation, but rather a fight. the revolution won a comprehensive independence. These ideas have been penned by him into a classic, Common Sense, which was officially published on 10.1.1776.

Thomas Paine's 50-page work immediately became a sensation throughout the United States, with more than 500,000 copies sold in just a few months. More than just a single book, Common sense has a great influence on the drafting of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Thomas Paine volunteered to be an assistant to Revolutionary General Nathanael Greene. His greatest contribution to this period was the 16 documents entitled Crisis published from 1776 to 1783, under the pseudonym Ly Thuong.

The opening of the First Document of the Crisis series has so far remained one of the "majestic antiques" of the American Revolution, to the point in 1776, when the revolutionary army was in critical danger and Facing the brink of disintegration, George Washington himself read it aloud to encourage the morale of the soldiers.

The works of Thomas Paine, along with the resounding victory of the revolutionaries at the Battle of Trenton in late 1776, inspired and strongly motivated many American soldiers, expected to be discharged on January 1.1. The following year, continue to fight again.

Great contribution to the revolution, Thomas Paine was appointed secretary of the Interim Congress in 1777, and secretary of the Pennsylvania General Assembly on November 2, 1977. Realizing that the US military was gradually depressed due to lack of food and supplies shortages, he deducted $ 500 of his salary to support the soldiers, and called for France to provide money, clothes and ammunition for revolutionary government. His contributions played an important role in the decisive victory of the war for independence in the United States in 1783.