“If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it isContinue reading “Maximilien Robespierre On the Justified Use of Terror”
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Maximilien Robespierre: Louis Must Die, That the Republic Can Live
“On the Trial of the King” by Maximilien Robespierre 3 December 1792 Citizens, The Assembly has been led, without realizing it, far from the real question. There is no trial to be held here. Louis is not a defendant. You are not judges. You are not, you cannot be anything but statesmen and representatives ofContinue reading “Maximilien Robespierre: Louis Must Die, That the Republic Can Live”
Guy Endore on the French Revolution
“The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs?” – Guy Endore,Continue reading “Guy Endore on the French Revolution”
Maximilien de Robespierre on Terror and the French Revolution
TERROR IS JUSTIFIED If virtue be the spring of a popular government in times of peace, the spring of that government during a revolution is virtue combined with terror: virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is only justice prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation ofContinue reading “Maximilien de Robespierre on Terror and the French Revolution”
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on Maximilien de Robespierre
I’m posting this article from the 1979 Soviet Encyclopedia for May 6th, Robespierre’s birthday. –E.S. Robespierre, Maximilien De (full name, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre). Born May 6, 1758, in Arras; died July 28, 1794, in Paris. Leader during the French Revolution. The son of a lawyer, Robespierre studied at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in ParisContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on Maximilien de Robespierre”
The Espresso Stalinist 