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Article: The Ultras of moral revolution.
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- Daedalus
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- January 1, 2007
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We need a moral revolution! (1)
Do we really need one?
But of course! Replied an ultrarevolutionary, a Jacobin.
But of course! Replied an ultrareactionary, a partisan of the Counterrevolution.
Radicals, adherents of extreme solutions, Ultras of all the colors of the rainbow, have a need for revolutionary upheavals, because only upheavals that turn the world upside down allow them to fulfill their dream of a great cleansing.
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The Jacobin, the revolutionary Ultra, says: