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A History of Revolution

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What Is the Relationship Between Religion and Revolution?

I think you depicted very vividly how the language of racialization and animalization within Nazism was not that far from what one could observe in the discourse of other forms of Western imperialism. So almost mechanical analogies between reactionary discourse that appeared in France after the Paris Commune, the communal depicted as beasts. And finally, the Nazi literature which so accomplished this large trajectory of counter-revolutionary literature. If we have to say in a word, which is the relationship between religion and revolution, I would say that it's conflicting relationships.

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