Justifications for a Bloody Week

The justification for a brutal smackdown on the radical wing of the revolutionary coalition rests on the need to restore order. Moderates as we've defined them often love a good political revolution, but they hate the possibility of a social revolution. Radical leaders claiming to represent a better truer or less compromised version of the revolution must be swept off the table. The modern regime that's in charge right now is in charge. You are playing by our rules, and if you don't like it, there will be fatal consequences"