Republics
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
Arepublic is born with fine aspirations, but we often forget that there is an old connection between it and violence. The republics of Indonesia, India, China, Algeriato mention just a fewspilled blood in the twentieth century just as the French republic did in the eighteenth. The republic, says Saint-Just, a theoritician of the French Revolution, consists of the extermination of everything that opposes it.
The republic here means a nation-state t
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