It's as if history, and especially radical history, has become some sort of moral game where all that's really important is to make clear just how much one is not letting the Great Men of history off the hook for the (obviously, very real) racism, sexism, and chauvinism they displayed, without somehow noticing that a four-hundred page book attacking Rousseau is still a four-hundred page book about Rousseau.

— Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber