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Atheists & Agnostics

Warren Stupidity

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2. If you go talking 'bout Robespierre you can count me out.

Reply to ellenrr (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2016, 07:40 AM

Jan 2016

While the terror of the French Revolution pales in comparison to its re-implementations by the likes of lenin, stalin, mao, and pol pot, it set the framework for why vanguard parties are a real bad idea.

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"Revisiting the Cult of the Supreme Being" [View all] ellenrr Jan 2016 OP

Rejection of governmental "sovereign authority" has become an article of 'faith' in the U.S. ... Freelancer Jan 2016 #1

If you go talking 'bout Robespierre you can count me out. Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #2