It's getting quite boring, this selective approach. There was as much place for the counter-revolutionaries in the France of 1973, attacked from everywhere, its capital threatened with complete destruction, as there was a place for Hitler's active supporters in London during the WW II bombing. There are limits to a legitimate opposition. Only recognizing this we may talk about the terror and its crimes. But I cannot accept the comparison to genocide or that empty category of eliminationism. Leaving aside the assumption that in the European continent people could have achieved freedom and self-government without a fight. Oh yeah, we have seen the willingness of the absolutist at the Congress of Vienna, haven't we?
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Date: 2010-08-14 11:02 am (UTC)There was as much place for the counter-revolutionaries in the France of 1973, attacked from everywhere, its capital threatened with complete destruction, as there was a place for Hitler's active supporters in London during the WW II bombing. There are limits to a legitimate opposition. Only recognizing this we may talk about the terror and its crimes. But I cannot accept the comparison to genocide or that empty category of eliminationism.
Leaving aside the assumption that in the European continent people could have achieved freedom and self-government without a fight. Oh yeah, we have seen the willingness of the absolutist at the Congress of Vienna, haven't we?