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The Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David, 1784. Louvre, Paris, France.
Revolutions
Volume VII, Number 2 | spring 2014
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As a London-based correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, Karl Marx wrote about Abraham Lincoln’s issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, “Up to now we have witnessed only the first act of the Civil War—the constitutional waging of war. The second act, the revolutionary waging of war, is at hand.”
All revolutions devour their own children.
- Ernst Röhm, 1933Lapham’s
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