" As Lenin repeatedly puts it, it is as if, before the revolutionary agent risks the seizure of the state power, it should get permission from some figure of the big Other (organize a referendum which will ascertain that the majority supports the revolution). With Lenin, as with Lacan, the revolution ne s'autorise que d'elle-meme: one should assume the revolutionary act not covered by the big Other - the fear of taking power 'prematurely', the search for a guarantee, is the fear of the abyss of the act. "

― Maximilien Robespierre , Virtue and Terror