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A Revolting System

“The same was true of the French Revolution. The revolutionaries were not aristocrats, in general, but some of them came from aristocratic families. The bulk were lawyers, writers, and full-time politicians. Like their Bolshevik analogs, they were products of a system they sought to destroy. They hated the system, because they hated themselves and therefore the system that produced and defined them.

This alienation from the people the revolutionary claims to represent is why murdering the people comes so easily to them. The radicals could lay siege to the Vendée for the same reason Stalin could collectivize agriculture. From the perspective of the revolutionary, these people were just resources to be used by the revolution or to be obliterated by the revolution, if they were inconvenient.”

https://www.takimag.com/article/a-revolting-system/