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This is such a great comment. It did, however, remind me of Zhou Enlai’s quip when asked about the impact of the French Revolution: “Too early to say.”
by darkteflon 3y ago
This is such a great comment.
It did, however, remind me of Zhou Enlai’s quip when asked about the impact of the French Revolution: “Too early to say.”
- j-bos 3y agoSeems he wasn't looking to far back/ahead: https://web.archive.org/web/20231114164905/https://www.scmp.com/article/970657/not-letting-facts-ruin-good-story https://web.archive.org/web/20231114164905/https://www.scmp....
- darkteflon 3y agoI think most people consider it apocryphal - as is so often the way with these things. Its rhetorical force certainly doesn’t depend on intimate historical knowledge of competing political ideologies.