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

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?

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

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.

i call dibs on anti kkkatholikkk hate speech

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.