According to Jacques Sémelin, "communist systems emerging in the twentieth century ended up destroying their own populations, not because they planned to annihilate them as such, but because they aimed to restructure the 'social body' from top to bottom, even if that meant purging it and recarving it to suit their new Promethean political imaginaire".
” 根据Jacques Semelin，“20世纪兴起的共产主义体系最後變成在毁灭他们自己人口，不是因为他们像那样计划去消灭他们，却是因为他们的目标是从上而下地重建‘社会机体’，即使那样意味着清除并重塑机体以适应他们新的独创的政治构想。