saint-juste of the terror 🏳️‍🌈🚩🏳️‍⚧️

kaganovich or zhdanov or molotov would've been the best fits imo

ok but can we talk about how the secular frev new year festivities were so much better than what we have now like no i dont want christ to give me presents i want my citizen peers to celebrate virtue with me

Robespierre personified two equally essential things in a republic that wants to live: the cult of principles and devotion to the public good. Who would say that his example no longer needs to be recalled, that there are no lessons to be drawn from his life or politics?"

Is he any less socialist? He is infinitely more so in my opinion than today’s so numerous artists who put their socialism in their words and posters so as not to have to put them into action.

After this, what difference does it make that Robespierre didn’t leave behind beautiful theories or an ingeniously constructed system like so many of our contemporaries, one where communism would have been demonstrated by A+B?

If we were to seek such phrases in the works of Danton we wouldn’t find them, and note that these phrases were written for Robespierre himself; that they summarize his intimate thoughts, and that consequently they reveal his true thoughts.

and to make the defenders of the Republic perish on the gallows. They triumphed in Marseilles, in Bordeaux, in Lyon; they would have triumphed in Paris without the current insurrection.”

“Who will be our enemies? Vicious and wealthy men.” And further on: “The internal dangers come from the bourgeois. In order to vanquish the bourgeois we must rally the people. Everything was in place to impose on the people the yoke of the bourgeois

“What is the goal?” Robespierre wrote in his notebook, which Courtois – who published it – called his “version of a catechism.” What is the goal? The execution of the constitution in favor of the people.

When we read the reflections Robespierre noted day-by-day for his own use in his notebook it must be admitted that Buonarotti was right. In any case, wasn’t he better situated than we are to know what the case was?

Albert Mathiez on Robespierre, in "Robespierre’s Policies and the 9 Thermidor":

"Buonarotti also considers Robespierre the precursor of Babouvism as a socialist of action and intention.

bsky is so much better you're just not 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 enough

GOAT

democratic rep, 2024: immediately capitulates on her principles to right-wing thugs and lets herself be discriminated.

robespierre, 1794:

i hope you do realize she belongs to the party that come january will not control any of the branches of government. she was elected to represent a political minority which by definition now must be in opposition and dissent. she does nothing of what she was elected to do by giving up like this.

Repost if you love Lenin.

i call dibs on anti kkkatholikkk hate speech

reposting an old banger

oh to be back among lefttwt ppl i can finally ramble again about my love robespierre and how he did absolutely nothing wrong

REPOST THIS IF YOU LOVE MARXISM!!!

jinx should've nuked every house in piltover, not just the council

[...] I shall forever contend that the spirit in which the King will be judged is the same spirit with which the Republic will be established. "

[...] It is impossible to reign in innocence. The folly of that is all too evident. All Kings are rebels and usurpers. Do Kings themselves treat otherwise those who seek to usurp their authority? Was not Cromwell's memory brought to trial?

We desire a Republic, independence, and unity, but we are divided and treat a tyrant with gentleness. [...]

For myself, I can see no middle ground. This man must reign or die. He will prove to you that all he has done, he has done to uphold his office with which he had been entrusted.

whereas we hardly reproach our common enemy. And everyone, either from weakness or because they stand with the accused, look at each other before striking the first blow. We seek liberty, and we are becoming each other's slaves! We seek nature, and live armed, like wild savages.

truth for us is only the seduction of our tastes.

We must therefore courageously advance toward our goal, and if we desire a Republic, we must be serious about it. We judge ourselves severely, I would even say with rage. We think only of tempering the energy of the People and of liberty,

Those who attach any importance to the King receiving a fair punishment will never be able to create a Republic. For us, the sensitivity of our minds and character is a great obstacle to liberty. We make all error seem more attractive and, more often than not,

And today we respectfully conduct a trial for a man who assassinated a people, caught in flagrante delicto, his murderous hands soaked with blood!

These same men who are to judge Louis also have a Republic to create.

One day men will be astonished by the fact that humanity in the eighteenth century was less advanced than in the time of Caesar. Then a tyrant was slain in the midst of the Senate with no formalities but thirty blows of a dagger and with no other law save the liberty of Rome.