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Jiang reads the Reign of Terror as a policy of mass execution justified as revolutionary purification against internal enemies, speculation, hoarding, and conspiracy.
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Purification
Jiang reads the Reign of Terror as a policy of mass execution justified as revolutionary purification against internal enemies, speculation, hoarding, and conspiracy.
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Robespierre purifies the polluted energy of the Terror by becoming the scapegoat who takes guilt for the nation and allows France to move on.
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"And because he is the most forceful, he has the most ideas, his ideas usually win out, okay? And what... And all of this..."
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"So, over a few years, three or four years, the Reign of Terror will kill, at all, at least 40,000 people within Paris alone,..."
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"And it's no different from the Aztecs no different from the Vikings no different from the Romans. Okay? These are all societies that practice..."
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"By becoming a scapegoat. By sacrificing yourself. By telling the French people the Ring of Terror was not your fault it was my fault...."
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"...my body glistens on the flesh of the great gods after purification priest incarnation priest and the babe priest have dressed themselves in me..."
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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