"Debating Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp."
I fear this will turn on an anti robespierriste portrait as... always, ugh x_x
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Date: 2009-06-03 09:07 pm (UTC)I fear this will turn on an anti robespierriste portrait as... always, ugh x_x