Talk:Jacobin
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Latest comment: 5 months ago by Permacultura in topic Expand post-revolution meaning "by extension"
Expand post-revolution meaning "by extension"
[edit]This meaning could be refined / corrected? / expanded
3 (by extension) A political radical
Jacobin says
the term acquired a "semantic elasticity" in French politics of the late 20th Century with a "vague range of meanings", but all with the "central figure of a sovereign and indivisible public authority with power over civil society." Today in France, Jacobin colloquially indicates an ardent or republican supporter of a centralized and revolutionary democracy or state as well as "a politician who is hostile to any idea of weakening and dismemberment of the State."