Master_Pedant wrote:
Vigilans wrote:
. And as to that whole guillotine reference, I recommend you really read about the Reign of Terror in France and think about whether or not it was really such a good thing. Remember, Robespierre himself got the guillotined in the end.
The "White Terror" that happened years laterwards was also pretty bad, plus Jacobin rule ended by slauhgtering thousands of Paris's urban poor. So, in history, there really are few "good guys".
I think Extreme Leftism is just as dangerous as Extreme Rightism. "Cut all the blades of grass until they are all equal"- no thanks. I'm for equality but not the kind that a Marxist or Jacobin would espouse. Decapitate the old elite and replace them with a new elite? Not a solution
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05 May 2011, 1:52 pm
