Yes, I don't like Zizek's preface to the "Virtue and Terror' book: he doesn't seem to consider context, either. Still, I'm surprised (pleasantly surprised) they're going to do a 'debate' - usually, it's just a straight Burke/Carlyle 'revolution is bad and the leaders are mad' line (and having seen some recent French popular history magazines, they're no better: it's 'tyran' all the way there, too). I'd like to see a repeat of the debate Channel 4 did in 1989: it had Michael Foot (bookish former Labour Party leader) defending the Jacobins.