↑ Emma Kathryn Kuby, Between humanism and terror: the problem of political violence in postwar France, 1944-1962, Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 2011, pp. 243–4: "Merleau-Ponty provisionally defended Soviet Union's purging of reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, and kulaks, writing that so long as the USSR’s violence was authentically revolutionary in its aims, it was justified by the fact that it was helping to produce a socialist world in which all violence would be eliminated.... Yet about three years after it was published, Merleau-Ponty, too, decided that he no longer believed political violence could be justified by the purported humanist aims of the revolution"
