http://leninology.blogspot.com/2009/07/proposal-for-refoundation-of-committee.ht\
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Last paragraph is good:

"The French Revolution was supposedly a heroic bourgeois revolution: the most
complete, the most conscious, the most thoroughgoing attempt to destroy
feudalism and create a modern, bourgeois society - or 'an independent centre of
capital accumulation', as one might more drily and accurately put it. Yet, the
bourgeoisie of today seems to loathe it. They want nothing to do with it. Their
reasons for doing so are not really plausible. Oh yes, the Terror, the Terror...
I don't see these people denouncing the American Revolution, (in fact, Schama
praises it as the most fitting alternative) for all that many of the
revolutionaries were authentic genocidaires and slave masters. Or is it only
terror if white reactionaries are its subjects? And might we not also say a word
or two about the terror of the Directory, practised on behalf of property,
beyond the cliched 'irony' that the revolution was eaten by its own children? Or
the terror of the counterrevolutionaries who, as Mayer points out, were not
slackers in the business of indiscriminate murder and rape? No. I can't help
feeling that what they despise, ostentatiously, is democracy. It is above all
the very idea of such direct democracy, of the iruption of the masses and the
sans-culottes (the real villains of the docu-drama) into the political sphere,
that is scandalous."