The Revolution is over
R.W. Johnson, 16 February 1989
The Permanent Revolution: The French Revolution and its Legacy 1789-1989
edited by Geoffrey Best.
Fontana, 241 pp., £4.95, November 1988,0 00 686056 7 Show More
edited by Geoffrey Best.
Fontana, 241 pp., £4.95, November 1988,
“... in Britain, where, as a South African, he is banned from TV, but bigger than Springsteen or Michael Jackson in France). What would Danton have thought of the Revolution being commemorated by a left-wing South African singing Zulu rock in the South Pacific? Perhaps it’s best we don’t know. One longs, at times, for the more considered attitude of Mao ... ”