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The difference is of degree, not kind. To put another way, if the leaders of a modern mob had the power to execute their targets the way Danton or Robespierre
by TMWNN 6y ago
The difference is of degree, not kind.
To put another way, if the leaders of a modern mob had the power to execute their targets the way Danton or Robespierre did, who is confident that they would not let the guillotine blade fall?
- ponker 6y agoI agree, but I was more talking about how those who would become self-styled enforcers of ideological purity tests often find themselves sufficiently impure and lose their heads the same way they took them.