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Jacobin Radicalism: Utopian Socialism Experiment
Jacobin Radicalism: Utopian Socialism Experiment
By Maverick.214 of The U.H. System Originally submitted 15 FEB 2003 File Reference: World Political Science Papers

The seeds of socialism were deeply planted in the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution by the Jacobin government's radical policies aimed at rapidly changing political-economic-social conditions. Overtly, these guerilla revolutionaries sought to implement an improved social system by usurping control of state power. Despite their original democratic intentions their modus operandi began leaning more toward authoritaranism. Universal male suffrage was instituted but later repealed, and the experience or political taste of mass democracy motivated radicals to zealously

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