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Jacobinism

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Jac·o·bin  (jk-bn)
n.
1. A radical or extreme leftist.
2. A radical republican during the French Revolution.
3. A Dominican friar.
[Middle English, Dominican friar, from French, from Old French (frere) jacobin (translation of Medieval Latin (frter) Iacbnus, Jacobinic brother, from Iacbus, James, after the church of Saint Jacques in Paris, near which the friars built their first convent). Sense 2, from the fact that the Jacobins first met in the convent.]
Jaco·binic, Jaco·bini·cal adj.
Jaco·bin·ism n.
Jaco·bin·ize (-b-nz) v.
Jacobinism
the practices of the Jacobins, a political group advocating equalitarian democracy during the French Revolution. — Jacobin, n. — Jacobinic, adj.
See also: Politics
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Noun1.Jacobinism - the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror
radicalism - the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society


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What we should be aiming at is decentralizing managerial democracy, in such a manner that neither neoconservative Jacobinism nor the social policies of Senators Schumer and Clinton can be routinely inflicted on their opponents.
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But realists who persist in regarding any democracy promotion as a waste of resources at best and latter-day Jacobinism at worst need to recognize that competing ideas about political order polarize people and states and create opportunities for American (or anti-American) influence.
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This was to shake off some Jacobite associations in the past, and some stirrings of Jacobinism in the present.
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