*political* terror. The people will see heads fall; but it will remain without bread. The controlling bourgeoisie, because it is neither willing nor able to change the system, is going to be decimated itself until Thermidor, reaction, and Bonaparte.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Search for a Method

that strange day of dupery when Billaud-Varenne and Robespierre, taking advantage of the fact that the popular delegation demanded the punishment of those responsible, are going to make use of the obscure anger of the people, whose real motives are economic, to support the enforcement of a

refusal to finance the war by taxes. They still imagine that their misery is brought about by counter-revolutionaries. The petit bourgeois members of the Convention, for their part, cannot incriminate the system without condemning economic liberalism; they too are reduced to invoking enemies. Hence