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Quotes from Robespierre: Virtue and Terror — Slavoj Žižek

born 1949 Slovenia

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...one should also not allow our opponents to determine the field and topic of the struggle.

Robespierre: Virtue and Terror (2007)

In short, what the sensitive liberals want is a thus try to deprive the French Revolution of its status as the founding event of modern democracy, relegating it to a historical anomaly: there was a historical necessity to assert the modern principles of personal freedom, etc.

Robespierre: Virtue and Terror (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Slavoj Žižek (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.