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... is to imagine how this radical emancipatory will can be given a new expression in the forthcoming crisis of global capitalism. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Revolutionary Terror from Robespierre to Mao Slavoj Žižek “What Do You Want?” In his Logique des mondes...

... in which the van- quished of politics are captured by the fiction of being mere guilty individu- als, this attempt is neither new nor glorious. Did not the official France of the restorations, for at least a century, present Robespierre...

... for pos- terity” is its impulse. In this sense, Li’sgongde has a resoundingly political content. I am thinking here of the famous sentence uttered by Robespierre at the Convention of 5 February 1794, in his speech on the principle of pub...

...- ing a true notion of politics. Yet he sometimes paints Mao as a poetic and passionate Robespierrean hero: “This brings us back to Robespierre who expressed in a touching way the simple faith in the eternal Idea of freedom which persists...