Is Che Guevara overrated

Che Guevara

A recurring question. Mostly voiced by his or his ideology’s opponents, but a question nonetheless. It is also a question which is easily addressed by looking at through various incidents in his lifetime and his choices: Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when a new posts are … Read more

Was the “Reign of Terror” justified

The Terror

If we look at what the nobles, private interests were doing to have foreign powers repress their own population to subdue them into serfdom, it would come across as justified. It wasn’t even a week into the revolution that French nobles started urging their relatives abroad to come and repress the ‘uprising’. With ‘relatives abroad’, … Read more

Should we condemn the French Revolution? The Terror?

Liberty leading The People

When one reads the sources about French Revolution, especially those which come from Anglosphere, the rather inevitable conclusion is that French Revolution was a rowdy action of unwashed masses, mobs, ending up in a grand, brutal ‘Terror’. However, approaching the subject from an objective viewpoint which is supported by research into actual history paints a … Read more