Jacobin


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a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

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Lyon's Jacobin government alienated not only many of the lower classes, but also the Lyonnais bourgeoisie, which began only at this late date to act as a coherent class to protect its power and property from the perceived Jacobin threat.
Nicole Aschoff is a faculty member of Boston University and an editor at Jacobin magazine.
Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572, which are not unlike those committed by Jacobin radicals who turned on the Roman Church of their day.
First as a revolutionary, then as a "reformed" Jacobin, then as a staunch supporter of Napoleon, David made artistic choices went hand- in-hand with his ideological development.
Last Monday, the leftist publication Jacobin published an informative interview with progressive political trailblazer Bernie Sanders.
That Grade 1 success was the second leg of a treble for Henderson after Call Me Lord (5-1 Fav) eased home under Daryl Jacobin in the opener.
Barely six years old, Jacobin is the fastest growing socialist publication in the English-speaking world.
In July the leftist website Jacobin published an article decrying the game as a tool of capitalism.
That political half loaf generated two counterreactions: the Jacobin, intent on washing away every last vestige of what it deemed a corrupt past, including monarchy itself, regardless of how much blood it took; and the Ultra, intent in the post-Napoleonic era on turning the clock back before July 14, 1789, in order to restore the wonderful world of the past.
Over the fireplace of the room in which they assembled, the Anti-Jacobions had a notice declaring, "No Jacobin admitted here".
A moderate who could write sympathetically about Mary Wollstonecraft at one moment while echoing Hannah More at another, Hamilton was not well-served by an earlier critical tendency to classify writers as clearly either Jacobin or anti-Jacobin in their political views.
He outlines Hamilton's significance as US Constitutional architect and influential early president, underscoring his sober Enlightenment realism that was skeptical of Jacobin idealism, but not quite as cynical as that of Thomas Hobbes.