Violence as a political tool is back in popularity. “Whoever prevents me from defending myself kills me as well as if he attacked me,” says Robespierre. “Where self-defense ends, murder begins,” says Danton. What should happen next with the French Revolution almost four years after the storming of the Bastille? Should it be transformed into a republic that gives people all the freedom to live their lives, be happy or starve? Or must the revolution continue as a dictatorship until social equality is finally achieved, even if the reign of terror still claims many lives by then?