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https://repository.digital.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1100010
The life and death of Anacharsis Cloots weigh on my mind as representative of the tensions between "universal" and "national" ideals in the history of the left from the French Revolution onwards.
Although "internationalism" might seem one way of resolving these tensions, only a sanguine superficiality can find in this more than a partial solution.
Image: Anacharsis Cloots -- Edme Quenedey (1756-1830), dessinateur et graveur -- Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, RESERVE QB-370 (45)-FT 4 -- Public domain -- Wikimedia Commons.
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It should've been a lesson for the world on the dangers of revolutions run amok. Instead future revolutionaries used it as a how to manual.
Although, a small part of my brain wonders if I could make money selling guillotine replicas. With rubber blades of course. Then again, I should remember what happened to Danton.