Why then your hypocritical phrases, your attempt to find an impossible pretext?
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.
Absolutely.
And I in turn have no empathy for the troops
That reminds me of an excerpt when the Prussians suppressed and forcibly shut down Marx’s revolutionary New Rhenish Newspaper
Marx had some absolute bangers of quotes.