The Reign of Terror was horrible, but I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Do people deny that The French Revolution was, overall, a source of good for the country?
Possibly. England never went through all that turmoil and still ended up in the same place with regard to democracy and liberty. 25 years of the French Revolution (the majority of which was under an emperor) ended up with a lost war and the Bourbon Monarchy restored.
What I'm getting at is that the revolutionaries in 1789 were moderates by 1791 standards and downright aristocratic reactionary conservatives by 1793/4 standards. The number of ultra left-wing radicals in 1789 was very low, but the Revolution steadily became more and more and more radical as it progressed. So it's not entirely hyperbole when Smuffin accuses people of being Communists. Maybe most of them are not really Communists, but history shows that it's easy enough for Communists to hijack a liberty/equality movement.
Note: While it may not technically be correct to call the Reign of Terror people Communists (it was half a century before Marx, after all), I think we may safely put them under the broad umbrella of Communism.
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