The iconoclastic gestures of the woke left bear an alarming resemblance to the excesses of the French Revolution
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A good article overall. The writing is, unfortunately, modern or contemporary.
It's all an exercise in power centralized in a single person or small clique. "The dictatorship of the proletariat" is first and foremost a dictatorship and the dictator dictates to the proletariat, not the other way around.