Thank you for the thoughtful response. While we still disagree, I understand your hesitation. When I think of this, I think not of Robespierre, but of Tito, wh

Thank you for the thoughtful response. While we still disagree, I understand your hesitation. When I think of this, I think not of Robespierre, but of Tito, who managed to liberate his own country from the Nazis and keep the reactionaries (of which there are many in the region!) at bay through state repression. Of course, it all fell apart once he died and the subsequent weakening of repressions created an opening for the reactionaries to return. However, while Tito ruled Yugoslavia he created the country with the strongest passport in the world (the only one that could travel to both Cold War blocks!), free education, an economy centered around worker-owned coops and liberal freedoms unseen in other Socialist nations. It's not without reason Yugonostalgia is still a strong force in the Balkans. [0] I believe freedom needs to be protected from those willing to harm it - aggressively so. We cannot stand by idly while those that wish to harm us set their machinations in place - we need to stomp them out before they do it to us. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugo-nostalgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugo-nostalgia