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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By mid 1793\u20134, the radical Jacobins had successfully completed their hijacking of the French Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacobinism<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They openly enacted agendas that might have seemed impossible in the heady days of 1787. Long gone were the pretenses of the original idealism when the revolution abolished feudalism, issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and wrestled with turning the Ancien R\u00e9gime of Louis XVI into some sort of constitutional or parliamentary monarchy analogous to what had emerged in Great Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon executing the clerisy en masse was logically followed by Jacobins guillotining thousands of surviving aristocrats and fellow revolutionaries for supposed counterrevolutionary sympathies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the leaders of the Jacobins were themselves finally guillotined, largely because their ascendant revolutionary zeal could end only in a sort of cannibalism \u2014 given that no revolutionary could possibly meet their accelerating purist demands. Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution was similar, though he slaughtered millions, not thousands.
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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review By mid 1793\u20134, the radical Jacobins had successfully completed their hijacking of the French Revolution. Jacobinism They openly enacted agendas that might have seemed impossible in the heady days of 1787. 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