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A hippie radical threatens a Christian. The Poor Revolutionist. 1972.

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There is a certain kind of radical who loves to fetishize the Guillotine.

They portray the Reign of Terror as a righteous purge of the Corrupt Elite, which our modern society should emulate.

Here's what actually happened.

Sure, they cut off the king and queen's heads. And then they kept chopping. Dissidents, political opponents... then the former executions would themselves be executed, once the political winds changed.

Then Napoleon overthrew the government and became dictator and emperor.

Then he was defeated after he overreached in his imperial ambitions, and the monarchy was restored.

A series of further revolutions and conflicts followed. A lasting republic was not restored until the Third Republic of 1870, which managed to last 70 years until occupied by the Nazis.

The longest period of French democracy, the Fourth and Fifth republics, established after World War II, did not begin until 1946, a full 157 years after the French Revolution began. And it is by no means an entirely equitable society, even now.

In the end, the guillotine did not eat the rich.

But you can make an argument that it ate the Revolution.

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They really just be simply dividing groups by Radicals and Conservative's in the novel. 💀💀

Once in the Maze different space, and once on the Vixi Holy Land but they add 'neutrals' to spice it up.

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Salman Rushdie has rebuked so-called progressive who have failed to distance themselves from the fascists of Hamas

by Brendan O'Neill

In his stride now, Rushdie chides the radicals who have failed to distance themselves from Hamas. This is a ‘terrorist organisation’, he reminds them, and it is ‘very strange for young progressive student [activists] to kind of support a fascist terrorist group’. Indeed. It’s been mindblowing to watch the self-styled anti-fascists of the bourgeois left either stay schtum or even try to rationalise Hamas’s fascistic attack on the Jews of Southern Israel. These are the kind of people who think everything is ‘like the 1930s’ – Brexit, Trump, gender-critical feminism – and yet when there was a pogrom that was genuinely reminiscent of the 1930s they essentially said: ‘Well, what do you expect…?’

Rushdie then commits a secular blasphemy – he questions the chant of our times: ‘Free Palestine.’ He himself supports the creation of a Palestinian state, but what would a ‘Free Palestine’ look like in 2024, he wonders? ‘Right now, if there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by Hamas and that would make it a Taliban-like state…It would be a client state of Iran. And is that what the progressive movements of the Western left wish to create?’

I find myself wondering this all the time. What did it mean when so-called progressives waved the Palestinian flag in the immediate aftermath of 7 October? Was that solidarity with the people of Gaza or Israelophobic triumphalism following Hamas’s vile, bloody invasion of kibbutzim? And when activists holler ‘Globalise the intifada’, what are they saying? The only ‘intifada’ we’ve seen in recent years was the racist pogrom of 7 October. Globalise that? Rushdie is right to call for deeper thought, to muddy with pesky nuance the juvenile rage against Israel that has swept the Western world.

There is something undeniably haunting about Rushdie making his plea for reason from his battered, injured face. In the interview the right lens in his spectacles is blacked out, hiding the eye he lost to the savage knife attack he suffered in August 2022. There’s scar tissue on his face. His lower lip droops to one side. When it comes to radical Islam, this man knows whereof he speaks. The inhumanity of this ideology is literally etched on his face. These are the punishments for ‘blasphemy’ in the 21st century: a severed eye, a deformed mouth. And yet still he sees, still he speaks.