"Ask forgiveness for what we are?" This is called communist self-criticism ”

Thierry Wolton is the author, in particular, of “A world history of communism”, in three volumes at Grasset: “Les Bourreaux” (2015), “Les Victimes” (2016), “Les Complices” (2017).

The scenes we are witnessing in the wake of the "Black Lives Matter" in the United States, in Great Britain, in France, as everywhere in Europe, to settle a story accused of being "racist" are not without reminding loss of memory blindness. From the past let's wipe out the slate! This famous injunction of L'Internationale , the revolutionary song born at the time of the Paris Commune of 1871, can have serious consequences. Turning the page yesterday, believing that we can start from scratch to build a new, necessarily better world, is a temptation for each generation, convinced that it can do better than its predecessors, that the future belongs to it. This hope, which makes everyone's lives an always renewed starting point, can nevertheless turn into a nightmare if it

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