the one place they needed an obstructionist bureaucracy was standing between the removal of members from the party and their executions. bunch of folks would've been exonerated like they were posthumously, and people guilty of less serious offenses could've kept contributing to society in a more limited capacity instead of pushing up daisies. this shit is why we need our pacifists and rehabilitative justice folks, to balance the exigencies of revolutionary violence and restrain it when necessary
Hard agree on this. While the ratio of simple removal-to-execution was pretty high (I believe it was something like twenty-to-one), the fact that it was able to spiral out of control like that was a real sign of the lack of a real ideological stop-gap. There was a real sense that incompetence and obstinance, particularly the unexplainable, was traitorous.
the one place they needed an obstructionist bureaucracy was standing between the removal of members from the party and their executions. bunch of folks would've been exonerated like they were posthumously, and people guilty of less serious offenses could've kept contributing to society in a more limited capacity instead of pushing up daisies. this shit is why we need our pacifists and rehabilitative justice folks, to balance the exigencies of revolutionary violence and restrain it when necessary
Hard agree on this. While the ratio of simple removal-to-execution was pretty high (I believe it was something like twenty-to-one), the fact that it was able to spiral out of control like that was a real sign of the lack of a real ideological stop-gap. There was a real sense that incompetence and obstinance, particularly the unexplainable, was traitorous.