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Joyeux Anniversaire Robespierre ! I present on this occasion...
A preview of the sequel to my Vampire Robespierre Comic l'Archange et le Diable !
I am exhibiting at Shortbox Comics fair this year and the comic will be available online for purchase.
The comic is entirely standalone (it's a series of small moments just like the first one), you don't need to have read the first comic to understand it. That being said, if you weren't able to secure a physical copy, I am looking to make the first zine available for purchase online soon.
Hello Frevblr,
I don't know the history of the revolution well enough, maybe some of you can help me out with a question. Have any of you read the play Danton's Tod / Danton's Death by Georg Büchner? How historically accurate is it? I know that he used numerous historical sources and actual quotes from speeches, but he also creates his own narrative and characterization of the historical figures (Robespierre especially gets a bit of the tyrant treatment) and I wondered how much they stray away from the historical facts
Anyway, thanks in advance for any additional information!!
So the tragic nature of the revolution is not only that Thermidor is logical, not only that it marks the end of a possibility for change, but that it is the true establishment of the bourgeoisie as the new existing political force. Not because it is "efficient" or "better," but because of its tepidness, fear, and lack of permeable institutions. We (like the rest of the great thinkers) are tragic heirs of the Thermidorians.
I do not lose hope that as humanity we can illuminate the path again and be guided with certainty, but a suffocating reality is that for this to happen, for the establishment of a system without precedents (like the S.J. institutions) to finally exist, the bourgeois order must self-destruct in a way that leaves nothing but air.
Only two things can happen from there:
the first and most positive, that we find the right path and create a new system for the improvement of humanity, that it flows and does not stagnate and rot.
Or the second and less positive, our extinction. That we are unable to jump over that wall, and we remain like the trace of a possible great civilization.
The project of institutions was colossal and ambitious, not because it was incongruous (quite the opposite), but because it started from a generated nothing, did not aspire to the nascent state of English capitalism, nor to Rousseauist liberalism as it has been interpreted since Hegel. Or to the already old ruins of Sparta (although he uses them as inspiration, it is actually a demonstration of how what seems eternal, if it is paralyzed, dies and rots) It was something truly unprecedented.
Saint Just has not been surpassed because it cannot be, but because we are paralyzed by political rot and personal interest. That's why persuasive men succeed in that corruption.
“The secret of the revolution: Dare!”
I just thought that, if Saint-Just had been a woman, Charlotte would have slandered him without mercy in her memoirs, and definitely worse than how she did to Eleonore
