The gullible Sancho Panza was meant to adopt the revolution’s deceptive dogma as entitlement to wage a brutal war against all. The dream of improving the world disguised a farce that affected not only a single life, as in Cervantes’ story, and affected not only the misleading army of buffoons believed to be missionaries.
对于我这样的东欧人来说，马戏团的历史——或历史本身，都是难以忽略的。庄严的《共产党宣言》宣称大乌托邦的幽灵笼罩欧洲，却没有警示我们血腥的专政。容易上当受骗的桑丘·潘沙定会接受革命欺骗性的信条主张，把它作为发动一场反对所有人的战争依据。改变世界的梦想掩饰了这场闹剧。这场闹剧不仅仅如塞万提斯故事中那样影响了个人的命运，也影响了那支受到误导以为自己是传教士的小丑军队。这个梦想毁了几代受害者。