How interesting that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the admirer and chronicler of the czarist aristocracy, should suddenly leave his seclusion in Vermont and surface in France to lend a hand to the Yeltsin counter-revolutionary forces in Russia. But he has to do it his own way, mutilating historical epochs to suit counter-revolutionary purposes. He cited the violence of the revolution to prove his point. Liberty destroys social equality.
Equality restrains liberty.
Solzhenitsyn is a little late with his criticism. This theme has been raised many times since the French Revolution. It took Frederick Engels, however, to show that, to the bourgeoisie, these slogans symbolized freedom of trade, freedom for private property and freedom to exploit the workers. Law can never be higher than the social system that begets it. It's fine to talk against violence.