Anti-totalitarian fear of Utopia blames revolution for violence that counterrevolution originates

Evidence

The deeper political motivation of the “war on totality” lies elsewhere, however, in a fear of Utopia that turns out to be none other than our old friend 1984, such that a Utopian and revolutionary politics, correctly associated with totalization and a certain “concept” of totality, is to be eschewed because it leads fatally to the Terror: a notion at least as old as Edmund Burke, but helpfully revived, after innumerable restatements during the Stalin period, by the Cambodian atrocities. … The history of the revolutionary convulsions in question can also be appealed to for a very different lesson; namely, that violence springs from counterrevolution first and foremost, indeed, that the most effective form of counterrevolution lies precisely in this transmission of violence to the revolutionary process itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 858

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s own published essay on sacrifice as a stabilizer of stratified societies — counterrevolutionary violence as a form of sacrificial stabilization is a live parallel. — connects to: Fear of PCF power launched the Nouveaux Philosophes to prominence — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 70
• QUESTION: Worth checking whether this ‘violence springs from counterrevolution first’ claim is empirically sustained or a rhetorical inversion, given the reader wants to test the book’s falsifiability.