Word: jacobinism
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...inability to cope with the situation shows that dread reaction on the part of half the population renders any plausible suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling and inordinately repressive laws forced the postponement of much needed political and industrial reform for a period of nearly ten years. With the spread of Bolshevism through Russia and into Germany, with radicalism and anarchism the hidden watchword of imaginary Corresponding Societies...