----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Albert Hirschman writes: In the French Revolution, "the radical counterrevolutionary discourse that soon emerged refused to distinguish between positive and negative aspects of the French Revolution - or to concede that there were any positive ones. Anticipating what was later to become a slogan of the Left (la Révolution est un bloc), the early adversaries of the Revolution considered it as a cohesive whole." (THE RHETORIC OF REACTION, p. 4.) Much like Clémenceau and Mitterrand! Mohammad Maljoo ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]