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Surely proponents of the guillotine must know that eventually the revolution eats its own?
by gottorf 3y ago
Surely proponents of the guillotine must know that eventually the revolution eats its own?
- morelisp 3y agoWhile unfortunate, it still seems like ultimately a net positive (in at least several major moral calculi) even for the smallest ratchet down of the projections?
- vkou 3y agoBut the fear of revolution might make the surviving oligarchs in neighbouring polities think twice. 'Pour encourager les autres', and all that.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago"eventually the revolution eats its own?" All major nafions, France, Britain and US, famously obtained their freedomz through bloody revolutions.