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Jacobin meaning
Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter. | A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political club prominent during the French Revolution. | A sympathizer or supposed sympathizer with the French political club or its aims of democracy and social equality.
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Pearson Education, 2003, p. 57. On 13 July the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat – a Jacobin leader and journalist known for his violent rhetoric – by Charlotte Corday resulted in a further increase in Jacobin political influence.
His work has appeared in Tribune Magazine, Jacobin, and Novara Media.
Liza Featherstone is a columnist for Jacobin, a freelance journalist, and the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart.
Along with domestic migratory birds, the city of lakes also becomes home to Jacobin Cuckoo which arrives from South Africa.
Because you wrote a piece that was much-discussed in Jacobin several months ago, saying that Bernie Sanders ought to convert his presidential campaign into a movement that would elect grassroots progressives around the country.
The rebellion was led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, a black former slave turned revolutionary, and was imbued with the Jacobin spirit driving the concurrent revolution in France.
Jacobin founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara argues that anti-capitalist workers’ movements are responsible for basic civil liberties.
The idea of the state representing the will of the people is a French Jacobin notion, which has always been rejected by British conservatives, starting with Edmund Burke.
Jacobin will perform his songs of social consciousness in support of his debut EP “Rose Moon” and will use the opportunity to support Yisrael Family Farms.
A Jacobin Convent was located there in 1225 then that of the Cordeliers in 1247.
A third group chooses to highlight the regime’s revolutionary, Jacobin and dictatorial nature.
Because of this fear, several other legislations passed which furthered the Jacobin domination of the Revolution.
Conservatives castigated every radical opinion in Britain as "Jacobin" (in reference to the leaders of the Terror ), warning that radicalism threatened an upheaval of British society.
French minister Citizen Genêt set up a network of pro-Jacobin " Democratic-Republican Societies " that entered American politics and attacked President Washington, and Webster condemned them.
Napoleon returned on leave to Ajaccio in October, became a Jacobin and began to work for the revolution.
Poe places a Latin epigraph before the story, describing it as "a quatrain composed for the gates of a market to be erected upon the site of the Jacobin Club House at Paris ".
The Anti-Jacobin sentiment, well expressed by Edmund Burke and many popular writers was strongest among the landed gentry and the upper classes.
The discovery of a Jacobin plot in 1794 was a catalyst to the onset of repression.
The Jacobin Club refused to admit Babeuf and Lebois, on the ground that they were "throat-cutters" ("égorgeurs").
The year of Jacobin rule was the first time in history that terror became an official government policy, with the stated aim to use violence to achieve a higher political goal.