Resurrection of the ultra-radical Jacobins
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23 August 2024 by Bob Bishop
When the French Revolution began in 1789, France faced financial, social, and political upheaval. The country had amassed significant debt due to its involvement in the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution, the high expenses of maintaining a large military and extensive navy, and extravagant spending by the French monarchy. Before the French Revolution, the French Franc was the global reserve currency. However, due to fiscal mismanagement, the nation experienced hyperinflation, food shortages, civil insurrection, and the loss of its reserve currency status.
During the French Revolution, different political groups, called clubs, vied for control to establish a new republic and abolish the monarchy. The Jacobins, a radical ultra-left-wing organization led by charismatic Maximilien Robespierre, became the most dominant and powerful faction. The Jacobins abolished traditions, customs, and religion to achieve equality and created new cultural norms. Jacobins used re-education and progressive reasoning to achieve egalitarianism—a false religion of virtue. When that failed, they resorted to violence. The Jacobin movement is the precursor of Marxism.
The Jacobins, known for their radical policies, implemented an egalitarian economic interventionism. This policy involved setting prices and rationing goods, leading to hyperinflation. They also rejected Catholicism and established new religious cults, such as the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being. The Jacobins even reset the calendar, renaming months and days and instituting a ten-day week.
“Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.” – Maximilien Robespierre.
In 1793, the Jacobins gained control and formed the Committee of Public Safety, a revolutionary tribunal, to defend the Revolution against internal and external threats, resulting in the imprisonment and execution of tens of thousands of people with opposing political ideologies and beliefs. The French Revolution ultimately collapsed into anarchy and violence.
Jacobin 2.0
Similar to 18th-century France, the reserve status of the US dollar has led to unsustainable debt, which has resulted in growing financial instability and income inequality, similar to France in the 1790s. This has created a fertile political environment that fuels socio-economic conflict. Unlike traditional Marxism based on class struggle, the Democrats employ identity politics, which has broader appeal in a multicultural society.
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