The Fear of Death in the Revolutionary Movement

I was thinking about Abby's really interesting question about sort of for non-wares the revolutionary after the revolution like what happens to them and I think that that there is a fear of a sort of decline like that the revolutionary leaders will become you know kind of like autocrats later. And so if we when we look at his late writings there's all of this anxiety that there will be a kind of capitulation or we might like reabsorption in the galleon sense right yeah into neo-colonial political economy. But it's also true that this sort of the revolutionary agency itself I think is a variant of the agency that he imagines all people to have materially registered.

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